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		gowld 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There is no memory safety without thread safety > Faulted trying to access 0x10 - the offset in the string we were trying to read from :) Is guaranteed that every offset you can try to read is guaranteed to create a segfault?

cesarb 24 days ago [–]

> Is guaranteed that every offset you can try to read is guaranteed to create a segfault?

The offset is fixed as part of the compiled code; the JVM can enforce that it's less than 4k (otherwise it can use an explicit NULL check), and that the first 4k page is always unmapped.

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