From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
Cc: Martin Uecker <ma.uecker@gmail.com>,
polacek@redhat.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc: Disallow trampolines when -fhardened
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:39:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmttox9b2v.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6f2c14e-dde6-472d-858a-a34ea0038073@gotplt.org> (Siddhesh Poyarekar's message of "Mon, 4 Dec 2023 11:26:49 -0500")
On Dez 04 2023, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> For hardened code in C, I think we really should look to step away from
> nested functions instead of adding ways to continue supporting it. There's
> probably a larger conversation to be had about the utility of nested
> functions in general for C (and whether this GCC extension should be
> deprecated altogether in future), but I feel like the -fhardened subset
> gives us the opportunity to enforce at least a safe subset for now,
> possibly extending it in future.
Nested functions by itself don't need a trampoline, only if the address
of it is passed outside the containing function's scope (as a callback,
for example).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-04 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-01 19:33 Marek Polacek
2023-12-01 19:44 ` Andrew Pinski
2023-12-01 20:53 ` Marek Polacek
2023-12-01 21:14 ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-07 15:34 ` Eric Botcazou
2023-12-02 9:42 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-02 10:24 ` Iain Sandoe
2023-12-04 16:26 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 16:39 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2023-12-04 16:45 ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-04 16:46 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 17:21 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-04 18:27 ` [gcc15] nested functions in C Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 18:48 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-04 20:35 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 21:31 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-05 12:32 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 21:33 ` Joseph Myers
2023-12-04 22:31 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-05 21:08 ` Joseph Myers
2023-12-05 21:15 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-06 7:39 ` Richard Biener
2023-12-04 18:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-04 19:13 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-04 20:15 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-07 15:42 ` Eric Botcazou
2023-12-07 15:50 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
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