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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: kernel writes to user space (was Re: Nethack)
Message-ID: <C9GMzD.B6@veda.is>
Date: 1 Jul 93 00:35:22 GMT
References: <20bfrm$le7@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <C990xF.43n@sneaky.lonestar.org> <1993Jun29.181749.5833@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <20qqgu$dj@werple.apana.org.au> <1993Jun30.022629.24466@uvm.edu>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:

>Isn't there a flag bit you can turn on on a *4*86, which tells the MMU
>to behave in a sane manner?  If so, then perhaps someone ought to
>write code to take advantage of this, triggered by defined(i486) &&
>!defined(i386).

i486 is a superset of i386, so it does not make much sense to define i486
without also defining i386. Therefore defined(i486) should be enough of a
test.

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