Re: Compiler Recommendations

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:02:17 -0800 
"Kristian Erik Hermansen" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Jan 3, 2008 6:17 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > unsigned int  size = &amp;barcheck - &amp;bar; 
> > struct foo *cfoo = (struct cfoo *)malloc(size); 
> 
> Sounds like nice opportunity for exploit!  Maybe I should check open 
> source projects for this :-)  Perhaps there are people doing something 
> similar where malloc is not causing a crash (same segment 
> allocations), and the code continues on without damaging important 
> structures, but allows you to influence something important for code 
> execution...