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agumonkey on Oct 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array...

what do they do to avoid it ? static analysis ? runtime layout tricks ?

pjmlp on Oct 29, 2018 [–]

With something that standard C keeps ignoring, bounds checking.

If the requested amount if bigger than the stack size defined at compilation time, an exception is thrown.

While C just overwrites the stack.

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