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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
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> From: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 16:17:34 +0200
> 
>   I have a question:
> if Windows OS is supposed to support memory protection,
> then why is it allowed to set software interrupts?

What do you mean by "set software interrupts", in the context of
Windows debugging?

>   We do overwrite the .text section of the debuggee to do this, no?

I don't think so, but maybe I misunderstand what you mean.