Re: ROP attack mitigation

2019-05-13 Thread Frank Tetzel
> > Every year there are new vulnerabilities, and some of them are > > possible because of ROP attacks. > > There are a couple things that come to mind to thwart ROP attacks > > that would rely on compiler changes in particular, instead of a > > kernel change or hardware change. > > > > I was wond

Re: GCC's ICF vs. gold's ICF

2019-01-15 Thread Frank Tetzel
> > why is the ICF pass in gcc not folding member functions which > > depend on a template parameter but happen to generate identical > > code? Is it because it is not identical on the IR level in the > > compiler? Can I somehow dump the IR in text form? > > You can look at the ICF dump generate

GCC's ICF vs. gold's ICF

2019-01-15 Thread Frank Tetzel
Hi, why is the ICF pass in gcc not folding member functions which depend on a template parameter but happen to generate identical code? Is it because it is not identical on the IR level in the compiler? Can I somehow dump the IR in text form? The ICF pass in the gold linker can do it on binary le