Differences between zelenka and zandonai

Hi, Firefox uses a technique they call frame poisoning to mitigate dangling pointer bugs. It reserves a poison area at a fixed location in the address space (and tries other places if that can't be done) and makes dangling pointers point there so that the application ends up crashing instead of

Re: Differences between zelenka and zandonai

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:38:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: Mike, am Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:54:10AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: Firefox uses a technique they call frame poisoning to mitigate dangling pointer bugs. It reserves a poison area at a fixed location in the address

Re: Differences between zelenka and zandonai

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:51:36AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: During the build, this is what happens: INFO | negative control allocated at 0x40028000 INFO | positive control allocated at 0x4002a000 INFO | poison area assumed at 0xf0dea000 (preferred addr) TEST-PASS | reading negative control