[H-GEN] Linux related work in Bris vegas?
Andrae Muys
amuys at contal.net.au
Mon Aug 26 23:03:07 EDT 2002
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Ben Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 09:54, Paul Gearon wrote:
>>- Segfaulting doesn't happen. Instead you either crash another program or
>>corrupt the kernel (but our programs never segfault... right?) :-)
> This is one of the major ones. I have seen folks strcpy() to a const
> char* on the stack before, I always like a little entropy in my life,
> but that is just too much fun. I guess this one depends on how
> comfortable you are with the other folks who have cvs write access.
>
Ok, now I'm confused. Could some kind soul please explain to me how you
can have a const char* on the stack? I don't think I've ever seen a
constant stack segment before... A POP-only stack, interesting concept ;).
Andrae Muys
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