#Sherlock: Give us a clue
04-May-93 23:47:32
Sb: #47580-#Sherlock: Give us a clue
Fm: Ron Wodaski 75530,3711
To: Lynne Ellinwood 73740,614
General Protection Faults occur in environments that switch the CPU into
protected mode. Windows does this, as do many DOS-extender technologies such
as Phar Lap. In protected mode, a program can only use memory that it owns.
That's where the "protected" comes from — the memory pool is protected from
ill-behaving programs that try to get at memory addresses that haven't signed
up for. A GPF occurs when a request is made for memory a program doesn't own.
Ron