??? 09/04/07 11:12 Read: times |
#143980 - Hardware protection slated Responding to: ???'s previous message |
That's a great article, but he criticises hardware memory protection!
On closer inspection one realizes that the need for protection and classes of programs arises from the fact that programs are possibly erroneous in the sense of issuing requests
for memory outside their allocated memory space, or accessing devices that should not be directly manipulated. If all programs were written in a proper programming language, this should not even be possible, because – if the language is correctly implemented – no reference to resources not named in the program would be possible. Protection must be implicit in compiled programs; it should be guaranteed by software. What about viruses and other malware? |