On 11/5/13 7:50 AM, qznc wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 15:25:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
David Nadlinger:
http://cmr.github.io/blog/2013/10/21/on-stack-safety/
It's a new blog post by Corey Richardson, discussing how to mitigate
memory corruption due to stack overflows.
Very nice article, it presents a interesting hybrid strategy. It seems
Rust designers have understood some of the disadvantages of the
segmented stacks Walter wrote about.
They removed segmented stacks completely now.
"The new runtime does not implement segmented stacks and it never will."
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/006314.html
Well now at least we'll get bearophile off of our backs touting
segmented stacks, using Rust as the sole argument they're good :o).
Andrei
