> Is there some simple way that I can test elfutils with fortify or bound
> checking tools?

Depending on your system and build setup, _FORTIFY_SOURCE might be the
default.  It's easy enough to enable it with CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
to configure AFAIK.

> How about using pointers and malloc or alloca, and indexing through the
> pointers? That should avoid complaints from stronger bound checkers,
> although static bound checking probably won't find bound error either.

Right, that's what I think it will have to be.  The cleanest way to do the
32/64 variant switching is not immediately clear to me in the abstract,
though in each particular instance you'll probably be able to decide easily
enough what feels clean.

> Or is there other pattern preferred by elfutils?

I don't think we've figured anything out.

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