Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The thing is pypy's taint code is broken. Basically you don't only
> need to patch all places that return pyobject, but also all places
> that might modify anything. (All side effects) For example innocently
> looking call to addition might end up calling arbitrary python code
> (and have arbitrary side effects). There is a question how do you
> approach such things?

Taint isn't an easy problem, but PyPy is still a *much* better platform
for that kind of experimentation than CPython.

RPython, objects spaces, the code generation, etc all give you much more
powerful tools to play with than the raw C code of the reference
interpreter.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   Brisbane, Australia
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