From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71171f53c22d92b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-17 09:22:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel References: <3FB1A63C.9080200@nowhere.com> <8Eisb.14119$hB5.9208@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3FB1F484.50705@nowhere.com> <3FB44C78.5050501@nowhere.com> <49cbf610.0311140300.26945e00@posting.google.com> <3FB5B35E.7060900@nowhere.com> <49cbf610.0311160329.3e319ba4@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <49cbf610.0311160329.3e319ba4@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:07:38 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1069088822 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:07:02 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:07:02 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2575 Date: 2003-11-17T12:07:38-05:00 List-Id: Dmytry Lavrov wrote: > Adrian Hoe 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