Re: Coming soon: CPU fix for buffer overflows

[Ralf Ertzinger <ralf () camperquake de>]

Hi.

"Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:

> AMD's Athlon-64 (for PCs) and Opteron (for servers) will protect against
> buffer overflows when used with a new version of Windows XP. Intel plans
> similar features on next generation Pentium chips.

If I'm not mistaken, this is just about AMD (and Intel) introducing a real
"no execute" flag to memory page properties, like Sparc (and others)
already have.

Certainly not a bad move, but buffer overflows exist on Sparc, too,
don't they?

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