GCC 4.8.3+ Does anybody aware of Stack Smashing Protection ? (original) (raw)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Jun 8 08:36:34 UTC 2015


On 05/06/15 20:31, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:

I'm not sure it affects hotspot but should we care about it?

I'm not sure that we need it as much as C programs do. By and large we don't allocate variable-sized objects on the stack, and of course there is no way for a Java programmer to do such a thing, so this protects against a risk that we don't have. I suppose this might protect our users if we have a bug in the runtime code or in scalar replacement.

Andrew.



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