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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: too good to pass up (SRB Comments)
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 23:32:09 -0700

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:10 -0400, Brantley Coile wrote:
> That was really John Mashy's fault, as I understand it.  He suggested
> it to SRB.  I had to deal with it when I ported V7 to the 68K.  Too
> bad every processor wasn't as clean in this reguard as the PDP-11.
> 
> For those who might not have heard of this, SRB caught segfault
> signals, allocated more memory and just returned.  The instruction
> that caused the segfault would restart.  It was an automatic memory
> allocator.  Problem was that not all processors could pull off this
> sort of stunt.

  That's some tricky programming! Do you know of any place one can get
an access to the original code ?

Thanks,
Roman.