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Subject: Re: Buffer Overflows
From: Douglas Ostling (quasiquasisoft.com)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 12:41:52 CDT

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Crispin Cowan wrote:

> I think we did fix the toolchain to produce more robust code. StackGuard is a
> hack to the code generator to produce failsafe code that fails safe under
> particularly dire circumstances.

Could we do a bo analysis on this compiler patch:

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/Haj.Ten.Brugge/
http://www-ala.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html/\
bounds-checking-gcc-2.95.2-1.03.tar.gz

With regards,

Douglas Ostling, Internet Entrepreneur
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