17th December 2010
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UNIX lover
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 427
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rocket357
My point is that while the ipsec stack was written by and peer-reviewed by the OpenBSD team members, GCC, sadly, is not. It would be considerably more difficult to inject malicious code into a peer-review software system than it would be to hide code in a bloated suite of tools like GCC.
I don't trust GCC, but until PCC takes over, it's the best we've got...so I use it.
And even though it'd be "more difficult", I'm not implying it couldn't be done...
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GCC uses different enhancements in GCC like ProPolice etc.:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.c...86&format=html
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