Re: Benchmark recommendations needed

2022-02-22 Thread Patrick McGehearty
architectures (i.e. arm vs x86)? or different implementations of an architecture    (i.e. intel vs amd or early x86 vs current x86) or ... well, you get the idea. Good luck, - Patrick McGehearty On 2/22/2022 3:49 PM, Paul Koning via Gcc wrote: On Feb 22, 2022, at 4:26 PM, Gary Oblock via Gcc

Re: strcpy and strcat seem to lead to a stack overflow

2022-02-22 Thread Patrick McGehearty
You may be thinking of string capabilities in some other language. Selected from the Linux man pages for these glibc functions: strcpy:    char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);    The  strcpy()  function  copies the string pointed to by src, including    the terminating null by

Re: FYI/RFC: strub: machine-independent stack scrubbing

2021-07-14 Thread Patrick McGehearty via Gcc
bbing is intended to close. Having the scrubbing occur in the calle means the callee controls what information is returned, making it responsible for its own security. Someone with a deeper understanding of the security reasons for stack scrubbing may know whether my concern has any basis. - Pa

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-14 Thread Patrick McGehearty via Gcc
. At that point, the steering committee can give warning and finally take the necessary action. - Patrick McGehearty On 4/14/2021 4:24 PM, Jeff Law via Gcc wrote: On 4/14/2021 2:39 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 9:08 AM Jeff Law via Gcc wrote: once or twice when physical viol