"Strong" stack protection for GCC
"Strong" stack protection for GCC
Posted Feb 16, 2014 11:06 UTC (Sun) by mchapman (subscriber, #66589)In reply to: "Strong" stack protection for GCC by paulj
Parent article: "Strong" stack protection for GCC
> Though, a trivial test-case (adding command-line arguments) doesn't behave any differently with overflow when compiled with ftrapv on x86-64 and happily runs past an overflow
It needs to be a 64-bit signed integer. An int is likely to be only 32 bits.
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