From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Friedl To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] The new ridiculous license Message-ID: <20030618154103.GA10946@folly> References: <3EF09185.2090900@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EF09185.2090900@ameritech.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:41:03 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cec7e00a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:21:25AM -0500, northern snowfall wrote: > If you ask me, it isn't so much about speed that interests > the OpenBSD team. The tiny, yet smart, codebase of the Plan > 9 compiler project allows the OpenBSD team to go in and hack > it to hell much faster than something like GCC. Especially > with their wishes of canary values and hacks that attempt > to randomize memory values, helping to obfuscate buffer- > overflow attacks. GCC has too large a codebase for them to > go through and alter what they want without reading how > their alterations effect the rest of the design. sorry, wrong guess.