Monday, October 29, 2018

The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead & Better For Clang - Phoronix (blog)


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The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead & Better For Clang
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The Linux kernel has long relied upon VLAs in different parts of the kernel -- including within structures -- but going on for months now (and years if counting the kernel Clang'ing efforts) has been to remove the usage of variable-length arrays within ...