Re: memory protection

[q-funk@citenet.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@citenet.net> writes:
 >|> On 14 Nov 1997, Andreas Schwab wrote:
 >|>> Broken software deserves to be broken.  Any program that crashes due to MP
 >|>> is simply broken, because it accesses memory it doesn't own.  There is no
 >|>> excuse for this.
 >
 >|> Except Thing IS supposed to be MiNT-friendly. N.AES too. 
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >|> Thing cannot even be started by N.AES correctly.
 >
 >Then why does it access memory it doesn't own?  That's still a bug.  If
 >it's not bug-free (which will of course never happen for any non-trivial
 >program) it should catch SIGSEGV and properly clean up in the handler.

Andreas, 

read again: "supposed to be MiNT friendly".
It means Thing is NOT behaving nice, even though it's supposed to.
This DOES imply it IS buggy.

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