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"Strong" stack protection for GCC

"Strong" stack protection for GCC

Posted Feb 16, 2014 11:13 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: "Strong" stack protection for GCC by mchapman
Parent article: "Strong" stack protection for GCC

Ah. Indeed, with longs instead and a 64bit overflow it core-dumps.

Hmm, that's pretty limited in usefulness so, and buggy with respect to what the documentation suggests it does (the docs don't qualify when overflow checks will actually be done). :(


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