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Re: Anyone protecting the stack?


From: David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:44:55 -0400


On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 09:15 PM, Kip Macy wrote:


Anything doing dynamic translation is going to need to generate and
execute code outside of its code segment. I don't know this for sure,
but probably even VMWare does this as there are a number of privileged
x86 instructions that don't trap.

Have you seen VMWare crash a machine before, I have ? Now is says that it
runs in using bits that segment it from the rest of the machine....


-DR




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