Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:53:02 -0800 (PST)

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> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 ak@muc.de wrote:
> It has side effects. It needs an ugly special case to detect legitimate
> uses of stack code (e.g. gcc trampolines), which may fail with more
> obscure compilers or interpreters that do this.

Which ones fail?

> My point actually was only that the security improvement of this change
> is not as high as many think.

But it is not utterly worthless as you seem to be asserting.

-Dan

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