Re: Unofficial buildd network has been shut down
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
> It's a cute idea, that gets a lot of attention from uninformed people,
> but it can't work in practice. I for one should have noticed if gcc
> were miscompiling itself in such a fashion - there would be a big
> chunk of inexplicable code.
Where would that code exist? The point of Ken Thompson's paper is
that the code is never found in the source. Do you actually look at
gcc binaries and make sure there are no extra functions in them? How
would you notice?
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