Fpmprotect function

Declaration

function Fpmprotect(start: pointer; len: size_t; prot: cint): cint

Description

fpmprotect sets memory protection on a certain block of memory. The memory block to protect starts at adr and has size len. The prot argument specifies the kind of protection to apply, and is a bit-wise OR-ed combination of the following:

PROT_NONE

Memory cannot be accessed

PROT_READ

Memory can be read

PROT_WRITE

Memory can be written

PROT_EXEC

Memory can be executed

PROT_SEM

Memory can be used for atomic operations

PROT_SAO

Memory must have strong access order (powerPC only).