> > This is very good news! How does it work? How did you install? CD?
> > I used to run Linux on HPPA, before the disks died, but I had a lot of
> > trouble with software being buggy on HPPA. No Stack made a lot of stuff
> > crazy (ffcall, ffi, interpreters, brwosers) in any case a very fine memory
> > bug finding machine :) And very safe for servers, no stack-protection
> > needed! I mourn HPPA.
> 
> I think you are deluded. The stack orientation on hppa makes any kind of
> stack protection pointless, not because it is safe, but because it is
> trivial to bypass.

Not quite true, Miod.  XOR cookies could help, because they permit changing
value on the frame (rather than inserting a check value).  This would be a
bit like the sparc/sparc64 wcookie, except, well different.

Noone ever wrote code for it.


Anyways, kids these days, they've forgotten all about "HP bug of the week".

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