http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.pnghttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap/Ben Zorn - Memory robustness with RobustHeaphttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap/en-usWed, 11 Feb 2009 21:19:00 GMTWed, 11 Feb 2009 21:19:00 GMTEvNet (EvNet, Version=1.0.3608.3122, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)Computer hardware often allows a small number of memory watchpoints, that are typically used for debugging.&nbsp; There have been proposals for hardware that allows many small independent memory protection regions (for example, Mondriaan Memory Protection by&nbsp;<A href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/witchel/"><B>Emmett Witchel</B></A>).&nbsp; He's proposed using such a mechanism to detect illegal stores, however no current commercial hardware supports his mechanism.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are also a number of papers describing either hardware or software mechanisms for detecting out-of-bounds reads and writes, and existing tools, such as&nbsp;<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoundsChecker"><B>BoundsChecker</B></A>, can also be used.http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap/?CommentID=457141Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:19:00 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap/?CommentID=4571410http://channel9.msdn.com/457141/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Computer hardware often allows a small number of memory watchpoints, that are typically used for debugging.&nbsp; There have been proposals for hardware that allows many small independent memory protection regions (for example, Mondriaan Memory Protection by&nbsp;Emmett Witchel).&nbsp; He's proposed&#8230;Ben0http://channel9.msdn.com/457141/Trackback.aspxIs computer hardware able to monitor memory locations for references, either read or write, and signal a hardware interrupt on that reference? The idea being that any use by a program of memory between allocations in a heap would signal a hardware exception.<BR><BR>&nbsp;http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap/?CommentID=457038Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:52:45 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Peli/Ben-Zorn-Memory-robustness-with-RobustHeap/?CommentID=4570380http://channel9.msdn.com/457038/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Is computer hardware able to monitor memory locations for references, either read or write, and signal a hardware interrupt on that reference? The idea being that any use by a program of memory between allocations in a heap would signal a hardware exception.&nbsp;SteveRichter0http://channel9.msdn.com/457038/Trackback.aspx