OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria and Windows XP SP2

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Sep 19, 2004
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:40:34 -0400, Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>VirtualAlloc (not malloc or HeapAlloc), set PAGE_EXECUTE
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Yep, seeing it again, of course. (only use HeapAlloc meself).

>To be nice (you just know MS will make DEP on by default in the
>next version in "the user's best interests"),
To be fair:
Done well, this may really help stop older viruses spreading.
if M$ do it OTT, everyone will quickly learn how to turn it off.
If they get it "right", there will be yet more, gradual, leaning
towards the M$-only solution, which is what they want...
But hey, getting it "right" could be a first )

>Eu should do that for call_backs
Rob already did! Call me a hopeless optimist, but I do think 2.5 could
see a huge improvement in the speed of change (admittedly 500% might
not be all that impressive, scnr) You cannot not hope though, and user
tweaks/feedback, I think, will increase tenfold. Whether Rob or this
list can deal with the load is another matter...

>Also,certain code would need some way of fixing itself (ie fptr.e).
Pass, I can't remember what fptr.e is.

>You can't just turn on execute privileges for everything returned by
>allocate(), because that would just defeat the purpose of DEP.
Agreed, but as above you must have some way when really needed.

Thanks,
Pete