What's the problem of D...,D will be dead?

Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger at darkstargames.de
Tue Apr 18 16:36:49 PDT 2006


Mike Capp wrote:

> What about "potential hidden back door features" of open source
> compilers?
> 
> http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

There's still the possibility to compile with another compiler
made by a competitor (this might be infected, too), but my guts
say me, that those kind of "backdoors" are bound by a boolean
AND operation. If the backdoor1 get's compiled into the binary
by FooCC and I compile a competing compiler BarCC and then use
BarCC again to compile FooCC any backdoor code will drop if both
vendors didn't agree to implement the very same backdoor.

Walter, does DMC handle things in the same way like GCC or uses
it a completely different approach?

-- 
Wolfgang Draxinger




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