Re: OS stopping stack buffer overflow exploits

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:42:30 +0200 (MET DST)

"A month of sundays ago Florian Weimer wrote:"
> The C and C++ frontends only generate trampolines if you use a GNU
> extension (nested functions).

And I have no idea why they should want to: nesting is purely a
question of namespaces and syntactic scoping. It should impact
the implementation semantics not at all.

Peter

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