Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:25:24 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: nasm over gas? |
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> > Are there any buffer overflows or other security holes? > > How can you be sure about it? > > How can you be sure? Mathematical program verification applies quite badly > to assembler.
The point is, if somebody does find a bug they will want to re-assemble with Gas after they've fixed it.
> > If your code fails on any one of these questions, forget about it. If > > it survives them, post your results and have someone else verify them. > > I'm sorry, your critique is too generel to be useful.
It's not, all the time the argument is not against the assembler code, but rather against $assembler!=Gas.
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