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SubjectRe: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer
Horst von Brand wrote:
> Julien TINNES <julien.tinnes.NOSPAM@francetelecom.REMOVE.com> said:
>
>>Not very important but ((get_random_int() % 4096) << 4) could be
>>optimized into get_random_int() & 0xFFF0.
>
>
> Check first if the compiler doesn't do it by itself.

The compiler cannot guess that get_random_int() gives a random result.
%4096 and & 0xFFF is'nt the same operation. But (get_random_int() %
4096) and (get_random_int() & 0xFFF) gives the same result: a random
number between 0 and 4095, without loss of entropy because 0xFFF has no
0 bit.

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