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no we will never

segmentation was an evil everyone both from the hardware and software side was very happy to get ride of

whoever reintroduced segmentation will probably be burned on a stick by computer developers in the afterlife (/j)



What makes you say that? I know Grsecurity made solid use of the segmentation registers for quite a long time.


Yet CHERI is gaining some ground.




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