> > 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".
