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- Submitted-by: barmar@think.uucp (Barry Margolin)
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- In article <16213@cs.utexas.edu> jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes:
- >Instead of replacing "executes any code", I think you could just add the
- >phrase "which modifies memory or calls any function" and maintain the
- >intent. Examining variables doesn't depend upon the virtual memory
- >relationship between child and parent, but munging a stack for a function
- >call might behave differently and hence must be rendered undefined.
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- Rather than "modifies memory" I suggest it be "modifies any variables" or
- something like it that refers to high-level objects created by the C
- program. Just examining a variable may modify memory; on a stack machine,
- comparing a variable with zero generally requires pushing the variable onto
- the stack, and even on a register machine loading the variable into a
- register might force the register's old value to be written to memory.
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