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It was an old joke that the opposite of "goto" is "come from", or that if goto is considered harmful, nobody said anything about a "come from". Marking somethin
by asveikau 3y ago
It was an old joke that the opposite of "goto" is "come from", or that if goto is considered harmful, nobody said anything about a "come from". Marking something as a branch target reminds me of this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
- dejj 3y ago> GOTO considered harmful COMEFROM considered harm-mitigating It ingeniously makes Return Oriented Programming (ROP) a lot harder.
- messe 3y ago> COMEFROM considered harm-mitigating You know, that’d be a fantastic OpenBSD release name. Here’s hoping a dev sees this comment; there’s already been a few commenting in this thread.