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Re: ARM per-thread stack protector


No machine has a per-thread canary value.  Using one would break
user-implemented stack-switching schemes.

Some machines store the global canary value in every thread's TCB for the
sole reason that it's cheaper to access a field in the TCB than to access a
global variable.  I don't think that's the case on ARM.


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