this has to be one of my all-time favorite bug-finding techniques: in your widely deployed software, at very low probability, you put a new heap allocation next to a protected page. performance is unaffected and the bugs that you find are those that actually matter to users in practice.
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John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 16:28:16 JST John Regehr
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John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 16:28:15 JST John Regehr
@amonakov A+ in computer science we make it a point to never name things accurately (including the name of the discipline itself)
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Alexander Monakov (amonakov@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 16:28:16 JST Alexander Monakov
@regehr how do you rate this verbatim quote from the paper:
GWP-ASan is neither GWP nor ASan.
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