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Re: 4.1 news item
On Sunday 10 July 2005 00:16, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > Here's a patch.
>
> Thanks.
>
> There are a couple of commas between items missing (usually when
> there is a line break) and some of the lines are too long (as with
> GCC sources we generally prefer lines no longer than ~77 characters).
>
> Is the new stack checking infrastructure really a port of IBM Pro
> Police, or a reimplementation by RTH and Jakub?
RTH said (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg01193.html):
//
The following is a functional re-implementation of the IBM stack
smashing protection patch described here:
http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/
This version is *much* less intrusive than the IBM version:
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Looks like a re-implementation to me, then! ;-)
Gr.
Steven