Anthony Youngman <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > On 01/09/17 22:14, David Kastrup wrote: >> Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel >> compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to >> account for. > > Have you come across the memory smashing exploit? I can't remember > much about it, but if you can hammer memory in your own VM, you can > actually corrupt memory in the next door VM. Even worse, you can > control the corruption with the intent of hacking into the VM! > > I'm pretty certain there are proofs of concept out there. So I guess > gcc might be doing exactly that by accident to cheap memory (my RAM is > the "value" brand - paid about £13 per 4GB stick). When I think back > the first memory I ever bought was £50 for a 32*M*B stick :-)
The first memory I bought was about DM800 for 64kByte and I had to solder it to the PCB myself, all 32 DIP packages. And it needed +12V and -5V rails in addition to the +5V rail to run. The first external data media I worked with was cardboard, and the biggest longterm data storage peril were mice. And I don't mean the input devices but the rodents. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
