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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pascal Calling Convention
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:06:15 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-03-28T23:06:15-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e927347b-4f90-471a-b574-878e655eba89@34g2000pru.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: imrgcv$22m$1@munin.nbi.dk

On Mar 28, 8:32 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> Not relevant to this discussion, but I think that's sad, as a lot of the
> security problems inherent in buffer overflows would have been avoided by
> simply keeping separate code and data segments. That would prevent code on
> the stack from being executed. (We found a lot of problems in Janus/Ada by
> keeping the code and data segments in our DOS Extender compilers completely
> separate; it's been quite a bit harder to find those problems on Windows or
> Unix systems that don't properly separate them.) The problem with segments
> is segments that are too small, not the basic idea.

...but aren't segments, in 32-bit machines, capable of doing 4GB?
But I see what you mean about data/code segment separation... though
it can
also be a source of frustration if you want to do some self-modifying
code.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23 21:37 Pascal Calling Convention Shark8
2011-03-23 23:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-24  0:24   ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-24  0:43     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-24  2:04       ` Shark8
2011-03-25 15:40         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
     [not found]       ` <F8mdnYCca6tRJBfQnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
2011-03-24 19:20         ` Keith Thompson
2011-03-25 16:04           ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-25 17:02             ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-25 17:09               ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-25 17:35                 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-26 19:51                   ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-25 17:51             ` Keith Thompson
2011-03-26 20:46               ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-27  2:24                 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-28 15:41                   ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-28 19:52                   ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-29  2:32                     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-29  6:06                       ` Shark8 [this message]
2011-03-29 23:45                         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-29 19:19                       ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-30  0:02                         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-30 12:40                           ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-30 19:40                             ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-30 20:56                               ` tmoran
2011-03-30 22:34                                 ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-31 21:00                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-28 20:29                 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-28 21:16                   ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-28 21:26                     ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-28 22:08                       ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-28 23:47                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-29 12:23                           ` stefan-lucks
2011-03-29 13:10                             ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-30 13:42                             ` Phil Clayton
2011-03-31  7:40                               ` Phil Clayton
2011-03-29  2:48                         ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-29 18:30                           ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-29 23:25                             ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-30 12:50                               ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-30 14:47                                 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-30 18:10                                   ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-29  3:01                         ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-29 18:22                           ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-26 21:30           ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-27 16:18             ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-27 16:38               ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-27 16:56                 ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-24  2:15   ` Shark8
2011-03-24  0:38 ` ytomino
2011-03-24  2:23   ` Shark8
2011-03-24 21:29 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-25 12:47 ` Marco
2011-03-25 15:38   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-26  8:39     ` ObjectAda [was: Pascal Calling Convention] Gautier write-only
2011-03-26 14:05       ` Marco
2011-03-26 21:58         ` Gautier write-only
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