How to kill a web browser
Posted Oct 22, 2004 13:45 UTC (Fri) by
nix (subscriber, #2304)
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How to kill a web browser by JoeBuck
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How to kill a web browser
The internal-corruption crashes certainly are rare, now. I was really thinking of the days of egcs and before, when the `bailing out' message often *was* the result of a SIGSEGV being caught, if memory serves, and was really rather easy to trigger...
... and no, this isn't a security risk. (Who would execute a compiler in a security-critical environment anyway? The security risks are generally in the compiler's output when it succeeds :) )
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