Re: C: compare character

From: Jeff Schwab (jeffplus_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/25/03


Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:55:47 -0500

Martijn Lievaart wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 10:25:26 +0000, Guy Harrison wrote:
>
>
>>Shame. I was hoping you knew of one. Methinks we need a system that faults
>>on loading a bad address register, rather than making use of it.
>
>
> We could write one, virtual machines are not exactly new. The Java VM
> comes to mind as a virtual machine where this probably doesn't work. But
> real hardware? I have been told it exists, but the real examples I knew
> from books are obsolete to say the kindest.
>
> HTH,
> M4
>

What about MMIX, or another "teaching" architecture? Have any of them
been put in silicon?



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