Memory Corruption with AAs

[Steve Teale]

On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:24:20 +0000, Steve Teale wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:01:48 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>  
>>> > Since it is single-threaded, it should crash in the same place in
>>> > the
>> same way every time. This means you can put an assert on the crashing
>> data (even without gdb it can be found by inserting printf's), and
>> slowly work it backward to where the data goes wrong.
> 
> According to an article I was reading that constancy does not apply with
> current Linux kernels. They deliberately randomize things to make life
> difficult for hackers.
> 
> I'll try to find it again - it's about debugging GCC itself.
> 
> Steve

Got it - http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebuggingGCC

Right at the end.