Konstantin Serebryany <konstantin.s.serebry...@gmail.com> writes: >> [A cultural question I've kept asking myself is Why has address >> sanitizer authors called these red zones (LEFT, MIDDLE, RIGHT) >> instead of e.g, (BOTTOM, MIDDLE, TOP). Maybe they can step up and >> educate me so that I get less confused in the future. :-)] >> > > Ha! Good question. I guess that's related to the way we explained it in the > paper, > where the chunk of memory was typeset horizontally to save space.
Ah, which paper? The only 'paper' I have seen is the pdf of you talk you gave at GNU Cauldron this summer[1] and it didn't explain the stack protection scheme in those terms or detail. [1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2012?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kcc.pdf > Btw, are we still using -fasan option, or did we change it to > -faddress-sanitizer? The later. As I said in my reply to David, I am going to resubmit a patch that exposes that change as part of the initial import patch of the series. Cheers. -- Dodji
