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by dwrodri 356 days ago
> Imagine shipping GCC at runtime

The security engineer in me had a facial twitch, but for the right usecases this would be indeed be interesting!

2 comments

That’s like having extra configuration dependent ASLR on top!

If carefully implemented the compiler and linker could omit code that the configuration didn’t require. Wouldn’t less code mean better security and performance?

What is the problem? Not being able to audit the code running on the machine?