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Re: SafeStack proposal in GCC


* Rich Felker:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Volodymyr Kuznetsov wrote:
>> We have prototype that supports swapcontext that we're happy to
>> release, but it clearly requires more work before being ready to merge
>> upstream.
>
> The *context APIs are deprecated and I'm not sure they're worth
> supporting with this. It would be a good excuse to get people to stop
> using them.

QEMU is a high-value target which would benefit from stack hardening,
and it is a heavy user of these interfaces.


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