Yes, this is a compiler bug. [LWN.net]

Yes, this is a compiler bug.

Posted Jul 18, 2009 22:53 UTC (Sat) by mstefani (subscriber, #31644)
In reply to: Yes, this is a compiler bug. by xilun
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

> The bug also is in allowing to map address 0, which can't be a sane way to serve a sane purpose.
If you happen to need to run a DOS program in Wine or sometimes even a Win32 application that still uses some DOS calls then you need access to the memory at 0x00000000.
http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem

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Yes, this is a compiler bug.

Posted Jul 19, 2009 0:07 UTC (Sun) by xilun (subscriber, #50638) [Link]

I could argue that supporting program written for broken systems is not a sane purpose ;)