"Strong" stack protection for GCC
"Strong" stack protection for GCC
Posted Feb 16, 2014 11:03 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: "Strong" stack protection for GCC by mathstuf
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Well, even on CPUs with flags, adding branching checks for them after every arithmetical instruction would be a noticeable overhead. That said, I think it'd still be very worthwhile on certain lumps of code. Sometimes correctness and helping programmers guard against their own omniscience matters a lot more than performance!
Posted Feb 16, 2014 11:08 UTC (Sun)
by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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"Strong" stack protection for GCC
Sigh... guard against their own _lack_ of omniscience.
