On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/22/2010 01:22 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Please stop top-posting. It makes it very hard to reply to you. >>> >>> On 10/21/2010 09:01 PM, Alexey Skidanov wrote: >>>> [SNIP] >>>> Regarding the ODR. You are absolutly right. But what about a MULTIPLE variable >>>> initialization. Is it correct behaviour according to standard? >>> >>> I don't know what you mean by a "MULTIPLE variable initialization". >> I believe he means the constructor running multiple times (the >> antithesis of the destructor running multiple times). > > Well, unless there's a bug you can't get that unless you break the > ODR. Am I the only guy under the impression that a Microsoft platform can suffer from Insecure Library Loading, while the Linux platform can suffer from Insecure Library Unloading due to ABI, ODR, and RTLD_GLOBAL? RTFM and and ODR are great - until the attacker causes SELinux (or other important sub system) to crash due to this 'documented feature'. Shared data segments are evil and should not be the default :/ Jeff
