C Is Not a Low-level Language - ACM Queue

April 30, 2018 Volume 16, issue 2 PDF C Is Not a Low-level Language Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. David Chisnall In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it's worth spending some time looking at root causes. Both of these vulnerabilities involved processors speculatively executing instructions past some kind of access check and allowing the attacker to observe the resu

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