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Re: Fwd: memory probing


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: Fwd: memory probing
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:24:57 +0200
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"coly li" <address@hidden> writes:

> write and verify means: you read the content from location X, and
> change the value, then write back to location X; then re-read the
> content from X, if the value is what you write, the location X is
> valid; otherwise, maybe the location X is invalid.

This sounds dangerous to me, what if you are writing to memory mapped
I/O?  I think you can get the amount of memory from the processor, no?

--
Marco





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