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"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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"Strong" stack protection for GCC

Posted Feb 6, 2014 12:52 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Note that 'register variables' in this context are not variables declared with the obsolescent 'register' qualifier: they are registers that use the local register variable language extension.


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