Check if address exists before use/jump in assembly?

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Published on 2010-05-25T05:00:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 6:01 UTC
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Say i have loaded some random address like 0x00001234 into eax. Is there a way to test that this address is valid/exists before jumping to it or dereferencing it? Or do I have to implement an exception handler?

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