"Strong" stack protection for GCC
"Strong" stack protection for GCC
Posted Feb 6, 2014 11:40 UTC (Thu) by sorokin (guest, #88478)In reply to: "Strong" stack protection for GCC by eru
Parent article: "Strong" stack protection for GCC
User 'kees' answered this question in comment to the blog post:
"It was to catch unusual ways to get a reference to the frame address, with things like “register unsigned rsp __asm__(“rsp”);”, etc"
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