Comment 1 for bug 316019

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

On 64bit, the truncation happens at byte 24 (32bit happens at 8). Does not happen on Gutsy or Hardy (or Dapper, which didn't use -fstack-protector).

I have no idea how to even search for stack variables that are assigned an initial string value. That's rather semantically sensitive to search for.