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From: BarrySchwartz124@...
Subject: Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stack smash protected daemons
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:37:37 -0500
JHolder <trs-gml@...> wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, does anyone know if using libsafe
> (http://www.research.avayalabs.com/project/libsafe/) would tend to break
> programs?

There's a better reason, however, not to use libsafe than just any
technical inferiority: libsafe currently is tied to an architecture.
It works fine on x86, but not on amd64 or probably anything else.

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