Re: The value of knowing reverse engineering

[Matt Hargett <matt () use net>]

Alexander Sotirov wrote:
> halvar () gmx de wrote:
> > now with all the discussion about GCC's security features, I can quip in
> > a bit more than one line. Rolf and me are having long discussions after
> > having had crazy problems with GCC's code generation over the time --
> > Rolf really wants to get rid of GCC for our products, and I can't blame
> > him. The amusing thing is that I think that reverse engineers and
> > developers are an almost disjoint set, because apparently developers
> > just 'live' with broken code generation, and many RE's don't develop enough
> > to notice broken compilers.
>
> I've been following GCC development for a while, and I have the impression that
> they are pretty good about fixing wrong code generation bugs. From the
> discussions on the GCC mailing list it seems that these bugs usually get
> assigned highest priority and are resolved quickly.

This is my experience also -- I really like the way Mark Mitchell has 
been managing things so far given the resource and time constraints.


> Can you give some examples of GCC bugs that you've encountered?

I was going to ask this, but figured I'd get an earful about how it's 
not the responsibility of so-and-so to enter bugs and they have better 
things to do, etc. Such comments depress me, but kudos to you for doing 
it anyways :)