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Question 52

What are forbidden addresses?

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Forbidden addresses do not correspond to any pages in page tables of the current process. They are just not allocated. Hence an attempt to use them for reading or writing into memory results in a hardware exception and is handled by OS. It usually involves killing current process right away. You will see the error message Segmentation fault.

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