This week at LWN: GCC and pointer overflows

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 30, 2008 2:36 AM EDT
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On April 4, CERT put out a scary advisory about the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). This advisory raises some interesting issues on when such advisories are appropriate, what programmers must do to write secure code, and whether compilers should perform optimizations which could open up security holes in poorly-written code.

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