Quick Reminder; The vtable verification feature (controlled by a flag) is designed to detect, at run time, if/when the vtable pointer in a C++ object has been corrupted, before allowing virtual calls through that pointer. If pointer corruption is detected, execution of the program is halted.
I have created (with some help) a git branch on gcc.gnu.org to contain the vtable verification feature work. This work is now well integrated with GCC trunk, and the sources are in a good state for future work. I believe all previous review comments have been addressed. The feature is disabled by default, and disabled on non-linux OSes. Regression testing on linux is showing great results (no regressions). There is a wiki page at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/vtv that contains information about how to use the feature, as well as links to the Feature Proposal, User's Guide, and the presentation on this feature at last year's GNU Tools Cauldron. This work has been ongoing since GCC 4.7 and is now ready to merge into trunk for the GCC 4.9.0 release. I would like permission to merge this in (and or information on the best way to proceed from here). Thanks. -- Caroline Tice cmt...@google.com
