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From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Jeff Law via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Joe Simmons-Talbott <josimmon@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ifaddrs: Get rid of alloca
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:13:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e465ee5e-bbf4-80af-c6bd-6000ae473211@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilc7rzn3.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>



On 6/1/23 09:05, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jeff Law via Libc-alpha:
> 
>> Instead I wanted to have GCC prove particular allocations were safe to
>> transform into alloca.  That never panned out, but I still think the
>> compiler is the right place to exploit the performance improvements
>> one gets from alloca vs malloc/free.
> 
> We got -fstack-clash-protection, which is I think is good enough from a
> security point of view.
Yea...  Though I still want to dispose of explicitly using alloca :-)

Interestingly enough I'm likey to have to spin up stack-clash-protection 
within the next few months for RISC-V.   Though I may look to delegate 
it -- it'd be a great learning project for one of my compiler engineers.

jeff

      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-01 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-30 15:25 Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-05-31 12:24 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-06-01 14:43 ` Jeff Law
2023-06-01 15:05   ` Florian Weimer
2023-06-01 15:13     ` Jeff Law [this message]

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