Re: nasm over gas?

[John Bradford]

> > Are there any buffer overflows or other security holes?
> > How can you be sure about it?
>
> How can you be sure? Mathematical program verification applies quite badly
> to assembler.

The point is, if somebody does find a bug they will want to
re-assemble with Gas after they've fixed it.

> > If your code fails on any one of these questions, forget about it.  If
> > it survives them, post your results and have someone else verify them.
>
> I'm sorry, your critique is too generel to be useful.

It's not, all the time the argument is not against the assembler code,
but rather against $assembler!=Gas.

John.
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