malloc and buffer overflow attacks

[Era Scarecrow]

On Saturday, 1 January 2022 at 02:07:36 UTC, max haughton wrote:
> Cleanly expressing access to the flags sounds quite hard, also 
> note that some architectures don't have flags, and some other 
> architectures make writing to the flags optional.

  Ultimately it would mostly be a function of saving the flags. 
After that a struct or other to check specific flags based on 
architecture. Setting said flags doesn't seem useful with how the 
languages are set up, unless you were doing some low-level work 
with loops immediately following.