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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 21, 2009 9:43 UTC (Tue) by muntyan (guest, #58894)
In reply to: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted by stevenb
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Did *you* read the bug report? Some quotes: "this is a regression", "It has never worked on the tree-ssa branch", "The 4.x compilers does not warn when using unset variables. The 3.x compilers did warn on this: ...". Gcc-3 produces better warnings, while gcc-4 gives you code which crashes 2% faster.


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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 30, 2009 13:59 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

Apparently you both read the bug report and came away with different meanings of it. Now stop waving your willies at each other and have a nice cup of tea.

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