Re: Stack overflow detection/Stack use over time
Re: Stack overflow detection/Stack use over time
- Subject: Re: Stack overflow detection/Stack use over time
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:17:03 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:31:01 -0400, Adam Mooz said:
>Canaries are a security feature aimed at killing the application if a
>buffer becomes overrun for whatever reason, not a debugging tool. That
>is they don't actually prevent a buffer overrun, they just alert
>whomever is listening that something bad has happened (the usual
>response is to kill the app.)
Sounds like a debugging tool to me. :)
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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