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Re: status bounded pointer support in GCC
- To: Greg McGary <greg at mcgary dot org>
- Subject: Re: status bounded pointer support in GCC
- From: ebiederm at xmission dot com (Eric W. Biederman)
- Date: 15 Feb 2001 09:25:40 -0700
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <hopugtp5p2.fsf@gee.suse.de> <ms7l312gea.fsf@mcgary.org>
Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org> writes:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>
> I certainly hope so.
>
> > Your bounded pointer implementation is IMO quite usefull and I really
> > appreciate the work you're doing there.
>
> Thank you for the encouraging words!
Well if encouragement helps....
Even if doesn't make it into gcc proper there is certainly a audience for
it. About half of all security exploits are buffer overflows so
building a secure privileged application with a bounds checking gcc
would certainly give me greater presence of mind.
Eric