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Re: bounded-pointer flag
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- To: JohnT <jrt at worldlinc dot net>
- Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:08:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: bounded-pointer flag
- References: <49B7CFA3.8090900@worldlinc.net>
On 11 Mar 2009, JohnT verbalised:
> There's a library called libsafe that is made to over-write certain i/o
> functions to prevent buffer over-runs, etc. If that can be built into
> glibc as an option by a bounds-checking setting, that might be nice to have.
This is likely better put in -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE, which already does
something fairly like this.
(and this probably belongs on libc-help@; moved there.)