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by westurner 1067 days ago
Are there NX pages/flags?
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NX bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

Tagged architecture / Memory tagging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture & type unions

Harvard architecture > memory details > Contrast with modified Harvard architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture#Contrast_...

IIUC Ideally there should be an NX bit on pages, registers, names, and/or variables; and the programming language supports it.

(IIRC, with CPython the NX bit doesn't work when any imported C extension has nested functions / trampolines?)