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rygorous / gist:e0f055bfb74e3d5f0af20690759de5a7
Created May 8, 2016 06:54
A bit of background on compilers exploiting signed overflow
Why do compilers even bother with exploiting undefinedness signed overflow? And what are those
mysterious cases where it helps?
A lot of people (myself included) are against transforms that aggressively exploit undefined behavior, but
I think it's useful to know what compiler writers are accomplishing by this.
TL;DR: C doesn't work very well if int!=register width, but (for backwards compat) int is 32-bit on all
major 64-bit targets, and this causes quite hairy problems for code generation and optimization in some
fairly common cases. The signed overflow UB exploitation is an attempt to work around this.
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roxlu / install_cygwin_sshd.txt
Last active June 15, 2025 12:19
Installing CYGWIN + SSHD for remote access through SSH on windows
Installing CYGWIN with SSH
1) Download cygwin setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com
- Execute setup.exe
- Install from internet
- Root directory: `c:\cygwin` + all users
- Local package directory: use default value
- Select a mirror to download files from
- Select these packages:
- editors > xemacs 21.4.22-1
- net > openssh 6.1-p