Re: mudflap vs bounds-checking

2007-02-14 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Christophe LYON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the difference between the [bounds-checking and mudflap] > systems? Mudflap is a tree-level rewriting pass amidst the optimizers that limits its attention to pointer dereference and addressable object lifetime events. It's upstream, having be

mudflap vs bounds-checking

2007-02-14 Thread Christophe LYON
Hi all, I was somewhat used to the bounds-checking patches for GCC 3.x from Herman ten Brugge. Now that GCC-4.x ships with mudflap, I am a bit confused, since the bounds-checking patches also exist at least for until GCC-4.0.2. What is the difference between the two systems? Thanks, Chris