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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:59:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Why ?
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 pnilesh@in.ibm.com wrote:

> Why the first 0x0 - 0x07ffffff   virtual addresses are not used by any
> process ?

I think it's to help catch NULL pointer dereferences.

> Is that used by the kernel and if yes for what ?

Other than the aforementioned reason, no.

		-ben

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