Re: if you guys are really worried about a Ken Thompson-style hack in gcc
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 02:33, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> wrote:
> I could repeat the argument, bringing in HP's compiler, Microsoft's
> compiler, and every other compiler; you would then have to resort to a
> world-wide conspiracy of compiler developers to keep all their compilers
> in sync, so they could keep inserting perfect Thompson hacks in their
> compilers.
Of course that only applies if people actually do those checks.
But it would be much easier to just send in a patch to add a new feature to
the Linux kernel memory management code which has a really subtle bug in
something like remapping memory...
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