On 1/24/15 3:07 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Gerald Combs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> These were fixes that had to be made prior to fuzzing. As far as I can
>> tell they fall into the "squelch a compiler warning" category. afl-gcc
>> generates an instrumented executable, which you can then run under
>> afl-fuzz (the actual fuzzer). According to the documentation the
>> instrumentation isn't strictly necessary but it does enable more
>> intelligent and efficient fuzzing.
> 
> So on what version of GCC is the version of afl-gcc you're running based?  
> That might either be an incomplete data flow analysis in that version of GCC, 
> or might be AFL extending the data flow analysis but not doing a complete job 
> of it.

$ gcc --version
gcc-4.6.real (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

New fuzzer, old-ish compiler.
___________________________________________________________________________
Sent via:    Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]>
Archives:    http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev
Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev
             mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe

Reply via email to