[vox-tech] amd64

[Ryan]

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On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:11 pm, Peter Jay Salzman p-at-dirac.org |lugod=
|=20
wrote:
> On Sun 18 Jan 04,  2:59 AM, Bill Broadley <bill@cse.ucdavis.edu> said:
> > For the security minded out there, the amd64 also supports additional
> > instructions to help prevent buffer overflows.

I seem to remember reading that there is the ability to have hardware=20
enforced non-executable stack.

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