Re: Question: Memory change request

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 13:48:23 EST


Leslie Donaldson wrote:
> I need a block of memory that can notify me or even a flag set when
> it has been written to. I was thinking of letting the user code generate
> some sort of page fault... Any random thoughts would be greatly
> appreciated.

Look for the Boehm garbage collector. It has code for handling and
recovering from dirty page faults.

-- Jamie
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