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Re: Average swaps per word?

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Average swaps per word?
Date 2016-11-14 17:32 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2016Nov14.183225@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
References <5352ea02-4942-40bf-8c92-e5012aae1807@googlegroups.com> <2016Nov12.132348@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <o07bak$ru0$1@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl> <2016Nov13.155518@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <o0af90$5sf$1@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl>

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albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
>In article <2016Nov13.155518@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>On a related note, gcc likes to delete stores (including memset()) to
>>memory that is deallocated afterwards, based on the theory that it
>>would be undefined to read that memory afterwards, and that this
>>therefore cannot happen.  That was one of the contributing factors to
>>the Heartbleed vulnerability: The programmers had defensively used
>>memset() to erase the secrets after using them, that memory was then
>>deallocated, and gcc therefore "optimized" the memset() away.  And
>>while the following read from that memory (due to a buffer overflow)
>>was undefined behaviour, it still happened, revealing the secret to
>>the attacker.
>
>They should have checked what happens while optimising. Failing that
>they shouldn't have optimised.

I agree that the compiler writers should not have written their
compiler to miscompile this case.

If, OTOH, you want to blame the programmers (which many people want to
do in such discussions, for whatever reason), what if they did check
it, and the compiler actually generated the kind of code that they
intended, and only the compiler that was used for some distributions
of their software had this "optimization"?

Anyway, the general idea that you should check what the "optimizer"
does indicates that what it does is not optimization, but
miscompilation.

- anton
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Average swaps per word? trans <transfire@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 22:03 -0800
  Re: Average swaps per word? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-11-08 20:20 -1000
  Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-09 08:16 +0000
  Re: Average swaps per word? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2016-11-09 03:34 -0500
    Re: Average swaps per word? trans <transfire@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 02:53 -0800
      Re: Average swaps per word? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 11:50 -0500
        Re: Average swaps per word? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2016-11-09 18:37 +0000
          Re: Average swaps per word? Harold <hzrabbie@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 16:28 -0800
            Re: Average swaps per word? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2016-11-11 17:51 +0000
            Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-12 12:23 +0000
              Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-12 16:09 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-13 14:55 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-13 20:34 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-13 11:43 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-11-13 16:58 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-14 16:41 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-11-14 16:38 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-14 17:42 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2016-11-14 16:39 -0500
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-17 12:40 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-17 14:10 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-18 15:14 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-20 18:16 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-22 10:29 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-22 15:54 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-22 11:50 -0500
                Re: Average swaps per word? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-11-24 17:27 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-15 03:55 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2016-11-15 17:49 -0500
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-16 02:59 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-17 13:07 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-16 22:57 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-17 03:12 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-17 12:32 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-18 15:02 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-17 13:23 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-17 08:54 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-18 15:54 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-18 12:37 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-14 17:32 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 02:09 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-15 10:44 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 03:12 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2016-11-15 13:01 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-17 12:51 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2016-11-17 14:02 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2016-11-17 14:06 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-18 15:26 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2016-11-18 18:33 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-19 03:32 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-17 14:29 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-15 13:51 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-15 13:01 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-17 12:46 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-17 14:16 +0100
              Re: Average swaps per word? Harold <hzrabbie@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 11:08 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-14 17:08 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 02:04 -0800
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-15 14:04 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-15 14:05 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-17 12:58 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-17 15:16 +0100
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-18 15:41 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-20 18:12 +0100
  Re: Average swaps per word? minforth@arcor.de - 2016-11-09 03:15 -0800
    Re: Average swaps per word? trans <transfire@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 11:22 -0800
    Re: Average swaps per word? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-11-10 12:20 +1100
      Re: Average swaps per word? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-11-09 21:04 -1000
      Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-10 03:45 -0600
        Re: Average swaps per word? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 11:52 -0500
          Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-10 11:42 -0600
            Re: Average swaps per word? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 13:34 -0500
              Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-10 12:54 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 16:33 -0500
                Re: Average swaps per word? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-11-10 15:56 -1000
                Re: Average swaps per word? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 21:30 -0500
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-11 03:04 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-12 13:25 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-14 03:34 -0600
                Re: Average swaps per word? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 10:41 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-11-11 16:45 -0800
      Re: Average swaps per word? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-10 11:17 +0000
        Re: Average swaps per word? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 04:34 -0800
          Re: Average swaps per word? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-10 12:44 +0000
            Re: Average swaps per word? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 07:27 -0800
              Re: Average swaps per word? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 18:26 +0200
              Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-10 16:05 +0000
        Re: Average swaps per word? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2016-11-10 14:55 +0000
          Re: Average swaps per word? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-11-12 11:36 +1100
            Re: Average swaps per word? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-11-11 16:56 -0800
            Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-12 16:14 +0100
          Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-12 12:14 +0000
            Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-12 16:16 +0100
              Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-13 14:51 +0000
                Re: Average swaps per word? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-13 20:41 +0100
      Re: Average swaps per word? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-11-10 14:42 +0000
  Re: Average swaps per word? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-11-11 15:54 -0800

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