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   mutazilah@gmail.com to anti...@math.uni.wroc.pl   
   Re: segmentation   
   02 Nov 22 05:35:06   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 4:47:15 AM UTC+8, anti...@math.uni.wroc.pl   
   wrote:   
      
   > > I wish to run 32 bit s390 programs,   
   > > unmodified, at the 4 GB location.   
      
   > But you really did no say why? Why do you care   
   > at which address program is loaded? Normally   
   > people care that program works correctly. And   
   > paging hardware was introduced to allow loading   
   > program in arbitrary area of memory (so that you   
   > have no trouble when two program want to use   
   > "the same address" in conflictiong ways).   
      
   Also, I don't want to require privileges to manipulate   
   page tables. I'll just allocate 8 GB from z/OS so that   
   I am sure I have a 4 GB boundary available.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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