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Re: PCH and exec-shield...
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> To ask a tangential question, if (as presently implemented) PCH has to
> reload data structures at the original address, why is there a problem
> with hashing pointers?
Maybe I'm answering that question out of its context, but it
seems you abandoned context by the "tangential" qualifier:
Because it's too easy to get unrepeatable behavior, from one
machine to another or from one run to another, including
seemingly harmlessly different code and different bug behavior.
brgds, H-P