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From: jtv <jtv@xs4all.nl>
To: Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
Cc: Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Whizzy New Feature: Paged segmented memory
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:11:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020108181121.A12696@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020107224525.8a899969dbcd@remtk.solucorp.qc.ca> <BD98BECA-0407-11D6-804A-00039355CFA6@suespammers.org> <20020108122225.B11855@xs4all.nl> <E16NwsH-0005Ud-00@asd.ppp0.com>
In-Reply-To: <E16NwsH-0005Ud-00@asd.ppp0.com>; from asd@suespammers.org on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:05:09PM +0000

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:05:09PM +0000, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> 
> Change gcc. Recompile world. All should work, assuming your gcc changes are 
> bug-free, no one made assumptions about stack layout, no one wrote assembly 
> code, etc. [In other words, after 4 months of debugging you might get X 
> running again...] 
 
And, of course, the same for all other software.  But for a highly secure
project, for instance, that might be worth it.


> Some architectures have hardware assistance for downward growing stacks. One 
> example is 68K. I think x86 does too. OTOH, I don't think PPC does, though I 
> haven't read the Green Book recently. 

68K has predecrement/postincrement addressing modes (I'm not sure that
counts as "forcing" the stack to grow downwards); PPC has a symmetrical
load/store-with-update IIRC.


Jeroen


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-08 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-08  3:45 Jacques Gelinas
2002-01-08  7:17 ` Anthony DeRobertis
2002-01-08 11:22   ` jtv
2002-01-08 14:05     ` Anthony DeRobertis
2002-01-08 14:14       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-08 19:33         ` Anthony DeRobertis
2002-01-08 19:45           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-08 17:11       ` jtv [this message]
2002-01-08 19:32         ` Anthony DeRobertis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-08 13:42 Jacques Gelinas
2002-01-06 14:14 Marcin Tustin
2002-01-06 18:32 ` Gábor Lénárt
2002-01-06 20:41 ` Kevin Krieser

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