Not the best solution
Not the best solution
Posted Feb 3, 2005 19:24 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Not the best solution by Ross
Parent article: Address space randomization in 2.6
Stack randomization makes BUGGY programs non-deterministic. But then, so does running the program on a different platform. I don't understand your complaint. If you're that worried, just turn randomization off on your development machine.
Aren't canaries a relatively large performance hit? I've written some inner loops that would definitely notice the time needed to generate the canary and check it every time you call a subroutine.
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