AMD Could Profit from Buffer-Overflow Protection

spin2cool writes "New Scientist has an article about how AMD and Intel are planning on releasing new consumer chips with built-in buffer-overflow protection. Apparently AMD's chips will make it to market first, though, which some analysts think could give AMD an advantage as the next round of chips are released. The question will be whether their PR department can spin this into a big enough story to sell to the Average Joe."

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Re:Code rewrites going to be needed?

[imnoteddy]

You have to understand that in the old days, these sorts of things weren't considered "bad coding practices", they were considered "Super Elite Hacker Tricks".

No, I was there in the old days and I don't have to understand. Apple told developers not to do this and MS didn't listen. There is a difference between "Super Elite Hacker Tricks" and "bad coding practices" - if the hardware vendor says "don't do it because it will fail to run on future hardware" (and I know Apple said this) it is "bad coding practices". Although I shouldn't respond to an Anonymous Coward.