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Old 11-14-2007
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You are trying to write to random memory as "k" has not been pointed at anything. The kernel can give you three answers...

(a) let you do it

(b) trap because you are writing to read only memory, eg the program image

(c) trap because you are writing to memory that has not been allocated to you