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Subject: Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?
To: Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Florian Weimer)
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> need fat pointers, which would make sizeof (long) /= sizeof (void *),
> which would break quite some software, I think.

There are plenty of architectures where sizeof long != sizeof (void *). If your
code makes bad assumptions and a bounds checking cc breaks it then its progress.

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