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[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Haha yeah it's not great. Now that I thought about it some more, I wonder if you could use decompiling to verify that the compiler is doing what it says it does. If you compile a minimal program, and then decompile the assembly, you could see if there are any instructions that shouldn't be there. It wouldn't be trivial, but seems like it is a possible way to check that the compiler isn't injecting something weird.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

The compiler can introduce vulnerabilities only on some specific instructions, although it makes it difficult to propagate it further to new compilers.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Good point, verifying a disassembled binary wouldn't exhaustively prove the compiler is safe.

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