FYI, here's an interesting article (and follow-on discussions) about a
recent bug in the GCC compiler collection.
http://lwn.net/Articles/278137/
The bug, which has been documented in a CERT advisory, affects C code
in which, under some circumstances, buffer bounds checking can be
Ken,
Comment below.
FYI, here's an interesting article (and follow-on discussions) about a
recent bug in the GCC compiler collection.
http://lwn.net/Articles/278137/
The bug, which has been documented in a CERT advisory, affects C code
in which, under some circumstances, buffer bounds
The bug, which has been documented in a CERT advisory, affects C code
in which, under some circumstances, buffer bounds checking can be
optimized out to produce binaries that are susceptible to buffer
overflows. [...]
Of course, many/most SC-Lers will no doubt jump on this as another
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Subject: [SC-L] GCC and pointer overflows [LWN.net]
FYI, here's an interesting article (and follow-on
discussions) about a recent bug in the GCC compiler collection.
http://lwn.net
At 1:00 PM -0400 5/1/08, Epstein, Jeremy wrote:
Ken, a good example. For those of you who want to reach much further
back, Paul Karger told me of a similar problem in the compiler (I don't
remember the language)
VAX Pascal, before VMS was on Alpha (and long before Itanium).
used for
At 3:12 PM -0400 5/1/08, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
The VAX VMM effort died with the announcement of the Alpha, in late 1992
- though obviously the death was decided internally once the move to
Alpha was decided, which would have been somewhat earlier. The origins
of the VAX VMM effort date back
