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Re: glibc and bounded pointers.
- To: jack at needle dot mudshark dot org
- Subject: Re: glibc and bounded pointers.
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 30 Jun 2000 08:41:01 +0200
- Cc: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- References: <20000629114352.M22505@needle.mudshark.org>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
>>>>> jack writes:
> I noticed that there was a --enable-bounded option to glibc.
> Which bounded pointer scheme was that intended to be used with?
The one that's currently under development by Greg McGary. Have a
look at the glibc archives of this month at
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/glibc for some discussion on it.
For now we don't have a compiler supporting it - and the support in
glibc is not finished yet but Greg hopes to finish the ia32 part of
glibc in the next few weeks.
Andreas
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