[12313] in bugtraq
Re: Compaq Alpha Bounds Checking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Lymn)
Fri Oct 22 00:26:39 1999
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:54:55 +0930
Reply-To: Brett Lymn <blymn@BAEA.COM.AU>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@BAEA.COM.AU>
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In-Reply-To: <380F5521.C7898D2E@cse.ogi.edu> from "Crispin Cowan" at Oct 21,
99 06:02:09 pm
According to Crispin Cowan:
>
>. Since a very large proportion of
>"array bounds" problems have to do with improper use of library functions, this
>is a critical issue.
>
FWIW Luke Mewburn has added basic argument checking to the NetBSD libc
code, not bounds checking but still helpful. I believe this work has
been put into NetBSD-current as an optional feature due to the fact
that the argument checking _can_ have a significant negative effect on
the library call performance.
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