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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:51:14 +0000
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arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> By the way, GNU C compiler allows nested function definition.
> To do that, some of machine codes are put into stack.
> It may cause security problem to be executed machine codes
> in statck.

How is that a security problem?  The stack is accessible only
under program control, and a programmer can do whatever he
wants anyway.