[HN Gopher] p2k23 Hackathon Report: Chasing memory corruptions
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       p2k23 Hackathon Report: Chasing memory corruptions
        
       Author : peter_hansteen
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2023-09-12 09:48 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | jmclnx wrote:
       | >spoiler alert: the upstream developer has proposed a patch since
       | then, and it totally fixes the regression, so we'll get a working
       | 118 in time for the release
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       | Nice, if I understand the article correctly, Firefox fixed a
       | regression found in the soon to be new OpenBSD Release.
       | 
       | Yet another reason a mono-culture (ie: only code for Linux) is
       | bad for everyone.
        
         | mewse-hn wrote:
         | Yeah from my reading, OpenBSD's strict malloc() exposed a write
         | after free() bug introduced recently to Firefox
        
         | hedora wrote:
         | Testing with clang + x86 and also g++ + arm (or whatever
         | combination of compilers and architectures makes sense) also
         | helps, and is easier than maintaining a port to a second OS.
         | 
         | It usually finds less stuff than a port to a second operating
         | system, but it's also usually less effort to set up.
        
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