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From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:07:38 -0500
Date: 2003-11-17T12:07:38-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <We7ub.3448$ZF1.454497@news20.bellglobal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49cbf610.0311160329.3e319ba4@posting.google.com>

Dmytry Lavrov wrote:
> Adrian Hoe <adrianhoe@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<3FB5B35E.7060900@nowhere.com>...
> 
>>On second thought, this is a great example for my Ada Seminar. I shall 
>>include it into the slides.
> 
> 
> On my second:
> i have readed somewhere on that web links,that it's "surely very smart
> hacker":
> "he also added extra () to avoid warnings..." ;-)

He probably was warned by the compiler first, and _then_
added () as an afterthought, before submitting the
patches.  It was GCC that was smart.  ;-)
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg




  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12  3:17 C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel Adrian Hoe
2003-11-12  4:26 ` Stephane Richard
2003-11-12  5:13   ` J Cusick
2003-11-12  7:18     ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-12  7:50       ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-12 12:08         ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-12 13:38           ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-12 14:09             ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-13 21:04               ` Craig Carey
2003-11-14  6:45                 ` Freejack
2003-11-14  8:33                 ` Erlo Haugen
2003-11-14  9:44                   ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-14 10:16                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-25 10:06                       ` Craig Carey
2003-11-25 11:20                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-14 15:31                 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-11-14 13:12               ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-11-14 13:31                 ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-14 14:56                 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-14 15:08                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-11-14 15:38                     ` Duncan Sands
2003-11-14 17:57                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-11-14 15:47               ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-11-14 16:38                 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2003-11-19  4:13             ` Dave Thompson
2003-11-21 15:34               ` Martin Krischik
2003-11-23  2:20                 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-27  4:22                 ` Dave Thompson
2003-11-28 14:01                   ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-12 17:37       ` tmoran
2003-11-12 18:03       ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-11-12  8:51     ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-12 12:32       ` Preben Randhol
2003-11-13  5:50         ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-11-12 22:59       ` Wes Groleau
2003-11-14  3:31         ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-14 11:00           ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-15  5:00             ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-15  5:02             ` Adrian Hoe
2003-11-16 11:29               ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-17 17:07                 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2003-11-16 11:35             ` Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-15 19:30           ` Wes Groleau
2003-11-12  8:52   ` Adrian Hoe
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