From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 14:55:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BAB37B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA71768; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:55:08 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Kris Kirby'" , "'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list'" Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) Message-ID: <20001018145508.A71459@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D794A@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D794A@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:14:25PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:14:25PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > It works both ways. There are fewer people who are working to fix buffer > overflows on alpha, 99% of the buffer overflows are in the MI (machine independent) code and thus shared with the i386. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message