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Re:Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium by cwzwarich on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:45PM (#21428639)
Are all Go fat pointers two words? If so, it would be pretty trivial to make them atomic on AArch64 using LDP/STP.
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Re:Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium by pcwalton on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:55PM (#21428696)
Unfortunately slices are 3 words. (Besides, AArch64 isn't a common target for Go. On x86 you'd need cmpxchg16b or something.)
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