Re: PoC: Function Pointer Protection in C Programs

["Stephen Röttger" <stephen.roettger () gmail com>]

> What is performance impact for program that just qsorts big array? It
> looks like worst case scenario for me.

I just put together a quick test program that sorts an array of 10^6
integers and stopped the execution time using "time". The results are as
follows (+- 0,01s):

protection disabled, -O0:
./sort_nofpp_0  0,19s user 0,02s system 98% cpu 0,215 total

protection enabled, -O0
./sort_fpp_0  0,54s user 0,01s system 99% cpu 0,549 total

protection disabled, -O3
./sort_nofpp_3  0,15s user 0,01s system 98% cpu 0,157 total

protection enabled, -O3
./sort_fpp_3  0,51s user 0,00s system 99% cpu 0,511 total

So this makes quite a difference:
0,19s -> 0,54s
0,15s -> 0,51s