This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
bounded pointers progress report
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: bounded pointers progress report
- From: Greg McGary <gkm at eng dot ascend dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:04:33 -0700
As of last night, I have implemented full checks for ix86 with
optimization of redundant checks. I can build GNU libc 2.1 (at the
head of glibc-2-1-branch updated from CVS last night), and most of
GNU textutils & fileutils. I haven't tried them all, but many work.
I even found a bounds-violation bug in GNU pr.
Things are far enough along that it would be useful to make this
available for others to test & debug.
Since turnaround for review of patches is slow, I fear it might take
months to get it all checked into the gcc mainline. What's the
possibility of starting a CVS branch for bounds checking? If a branch
isn't possible, then I suppose I could publish patches against
the weekly snapshots.
Please advise.
Greg