On 7/26/2011 7:06 PM, bearophile wrote:
Walter:
Hmm. D is supposed to link with gcc code, so that could be an issue.
How?
I believe Marco explained that: "GNU C closures need an executable stack"
Is the D GC eventually in need for some hardening? This is highly technical
stuff:
It's not that technical.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2009/08/04/preventing-the-exploitation-of-user-mode-heap-corruption-vulnerabilities.aspx
D relies more on memory safety guarantees of the language rather than
after-the-fact damage control. A well written D program will have very little
unsafe code in it, whereas it's pretty much impossible to do that in C or C++,
as they rely so heavily on pointer arithmetic.
