On a single core machine, how can a kernel impose restrictions (memory, etc) on a process, if the compiled code is directly executed on the processor?

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Basically, how does the kernel prevent me from doing something like this?

char *p = (char *) 0xfea80650; // or any random point in memory
*p = 0;

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