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Bounds-Checking Entire Programs without Recompiling

Nicholas NethercoteComputer Laboratory

University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom

njn25@cam.ac.uk

Jeremy FitzhardingeSan FranciscoUnited States

jeremy@goop.org

ABSTRACT

Categories and Subject Descriptors

General Terms

Keywords

1. INTRODUCTION

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2. THEORY

2.1 Overview

2.2 Metadata

2.3 Checking Accesses

2.4 Allocating and Freeing Segments

2.4.1 Heap Segments

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2.4.2 Static Segments

2.4.3 Stack Segments

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2.5 Operations

2.5.1 Copying Values

2.5.2 New Static Values

2.5.3 New Dynamic Values

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2.5.4 Subtraction

2.5.5 Propagation of Unknown

2.5.6 Other Operations

2.6 Comments

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3. PRACTICE

3.1 Implementation Framework

3.2 Metadata Representation

3.3 Segment Management

3.3.1 Storing Segments

3.3.2 Freeing Segments

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3.4 Static Segments

3.5 Stack Segments

3.6 Range Tests

3.7 Pointer Differences

3.8 System Calls

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3.9 Custom Allocators

3.10 Leniency

3.11 Examples

3.12 Performance

4. SHORTCOMINGS

4.1 Optimal Case

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4.2 Implementation

4.3 No Debugging Information

4.4 No Symbols

4.5 Avoiding Shortcomings

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5. RELATED WORK

5.1 Redzones

5.2 Fat Pointers

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5.3 Static Checking

5.4 Runtime Type Checking

6. FUTURE WORK AND CONCLUSION

7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

8. REFERENCES

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