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Re: machine independent protection from stack-smashing attack
- To: Hiroaki Etoh <ETOH at jp dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: machine independent protection from stack-smashing attack
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:58:11 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, David Edelsohn <David_Edelsohn%IBMUS at jp dot ibm dot com>
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Hiroaki Etoh wrote:
> I would like some feedback whether it is worth pursuing getting it
> assigned to the FSF for inclusion in GCC.
That sounds very useful, also for debugging ``regular'' programs. I
don't see why we should *not* want to add this as an option to GCC,
disabled by default and enabled by a command-line flag.
Gerald
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