Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:10:53 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array |
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 02:50:24PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > OK, I guess should not have referenced the llvm-linux page. > So here are reasons on our side that I am ready to vouch: > > - clang make it possible to implement KMSAN (dynamic detection of > uses of uninit memory)
How does GCC make this impossible?
> - better code coverage for fuzzing
How so? Why can't the same be achieved using GCC?
> - why simpler and faster development (e.g. we can port our user-space > hardening technologies -- CFI and SafeStack)
That's just because you've already implemented this in clang, right? So less work for you. Not because its impossible.
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