On Dec 21,  2:35pm, David Laight wrote:
} On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:47:55AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
} > Out of curiosity, care to give any pointers/details/implementation details?
} 
} Consider a system that uses the x86 segmented model and uses separate
} descriptors for each malloc'ed area. Loading a segment register with
} a stale pointer will cause a protection error.

     Of course, you could load the value into a data register for the
purpose of comparing it, instead of loading it into a segment
register.

}-- End of excerpt from David Laight