status bounded pointer support in GCC

[Eric W. Biederman]

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