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Some C compilers for the 68000 added an instruction to do a dummy read before doing any stack operations to trigger a fault in a way that it didn't matter to th

by rjsw 5y ago

Some C compilers for the 68000 added an instruction to do a dummy read before doing any stack operations to trigger a fault in a way that it didn't matter to the instructions doing real work.

zozbot234 5y ago
This is still done today to guard against stack overflows, in combination with unmapped "guard" pages.