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Changes between Version 79 and Version 80 of mmcco


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Dec 30, 2015, 3:58:07 AM (8 years ago)
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mmcco
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    v79 v80  
    212212== OpenBSD port ==
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    214 Porting Pidgin 3 to OpenBSD was a valuable experience. OpenBSD builds with strong compiler hardening and loads executables with strong ASLR and memory sanitization, so memory corruption bugs that usually fly on other platforms are often exposed. I found at least four of these, three of which I've already fixed upstream.
     214Porting Pidgin 3 to OpenBSD was a valuable experience. OpenBSD uses compile-time hardening such as a stack protector, as well as strong ASLR and memory sanitization. This exposes memory corruption bugs that usually fly on other platforms. I found at least four of these, three of which I've already fixed.
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    216216Porting to a different build environment also helps tease out bugs. I found an issue in our pkg-config logic and another in an Automake script.
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