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Comment by UncleEntity

3 years ago

> Every memory access is already a conditional branch, and it doesn't cause problems.

Is that how it actually works or is it the kernel/hardware not letting you dereference 0?

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codedokodeĀ  3 years ago

I mean every memory access can cause an exception and handling an exception is a kind of branch.

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