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Re: [Ada] Clean up handling of "big" pointers

From: Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149 dot net>
To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:39:17 +0200
Subject: Re: [Ada] Clean up handling of "big" pointers
References: <20080410072643.GA2869@adacore.com> <2008-04-10-09-50-05+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <20080410080940.GA71600@adacore.com>

On 10/04, Arnaud Charlet wrote:

| > If this is a security fix, it should probably be backported to open
| > branches as well.
| 
| It's not a security fix, since it affects only the gnat tools, and not
| Ada applications. The main issue was some random failure to compile some
| files in extreme cases.

Couldn't an attacker use the problem to get the wrong file compiled in
some case for example?

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