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Accessing memory is not unsafe, wdym?
by zanellato19 6y ago
Accessing memory is not unsafe, wdym?
- Asraelite 6y agoI guess dereferencing a raw pointer?
- mcguire 6y agoBuilding memory management/allocation/malloc systems is.
- megous 6y agoIn a multi-core system, it may be, since you're not really accessing main memory directly, but you're going through several levels of all kinds of caches, some shared and some not (L1 (instruction, data), L2, L3, TLB, ...), and sometimes competing with devices that access the memory "directly" via DMA.