LLVM Drops Its Shadow Call Stack Support For x86_64

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LLVM Drops Its Shadow Call Stack Support For x86_64

07 March 2019, 08:50 PM

Phoronix: LLVM Drops Its Shadow Call Stack Support For x86_64

LLVM for a while has offered a "Shadow Call Stack" pass used to protect programs against stack buffer overflows. While the 64-bit ARM (AArch64) shadow call stack has worked out well, the x86_64 implementation has been deemed insufficient and is now removed...

LLVM Drops Its Shadow Call Stack Support For x86_64 - Phoronix

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