get a struct member pointer

Chris Nicholson-Sauls ibisbasenji at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 12:26:24 PST 2009


Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> bearophile wrote:
>> Daniel Keep:
>>> Heads up, Google is flagging the above site as doing drive-by
>>> installation of malicious software.
>> My browser there has done nothing bad, and that page offers one of the best contents about this topic (I think that page is linked from Wikipedia too). Is that the kiss of death from Google for a page? :-)
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> Well, when it lists the site as having performed drive-by installation
> WITHOUT having to prompt or notify the user, that's pretty much the end
> of it for me.
> 
> Given the report itself, it's probably malware that got in via their
> advertiser.  But that's still no excuse.  I don't care HOW good the
> content is if I'm risking my machine to view it.
> 
> That said, I actually read a bit of it via lynx; I don't think the code
> I listed violates strict aliasing.  It creates a pointer of the same
> type to a piece of memory; it only creates one of a different type as an
> intermediary step, and doesn't store it.
> 
>   -- Daniel

Firefox/3.1 + NoScript + AdBlock-Plus prevents almost everything.  That, 
and running Linux in the first place... ;)

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls


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