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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 96 13:46:29
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <3175CF42.DAB@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no> Hσvard Pedersen <havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no> writes:
- > Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
- > > It would be great IMO to have an add-on layer to the OS that
- > > aggressively checks and reports everything, but there shouldn't be too
- > > much reason for the user to run that.
- >
- > There are tools which does that. Enforcer and Mungwall come to mind. If
- > programmers used these tools, there would be no use for memory protection.
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- I was thinking more along the lines of checking arguments to OS calls, logging
- unknown tags etc. As far as checking memory accesses during testing is
- concerned I guess APurify can catch violations better anyway.
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- > Hσvard Pedersen E-Mail: havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no
- > aka Howard/Mental Diseases IRC-Channels: #amiga and #norway
- > IRC-Nick: Howard_MD or HowardMD
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
- Riddle: One part English one part Greek, half means `tiny' half means `weak'
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