Code+Data separation

Steve Schear azur at netcom.com
Thu Dec 19 13:20:10 PST 1996


>Allowing code and data to reside in the same areas of memory is
>a nice convenience, but it makes security harder to implement
>because it means code is modifiable and data can be created which
>just happens to do bad things if it is executed.
>
>Are there any modern processors which keep the code and data separated?
>
>Peter Hendrickson
>ph at netcom.com

I believe those that follow a Harvard architecture do this.

-- Steve








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