On Sunday 10 July 2005 00:16, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > Here's a patch. > > Thanks. > > There are a couple of commas between items missing (usually when > there is a line break) and some of the lines are too long (as with > GCC sources we generally prefer lines no longer than ~77 characters). > > Is the new stack checking infrastructure really a port of IBM Pro > Police, or a reimplementation by RTH and Jakub?
RTH said (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg01193.html): // The following is a functional re-implementation of the IBM stack smashing protection patch described here: http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ This version is *much* less intrusive than the IBM version: // Looks like a re-implementation to me, then! ;-) Gr. Steven
