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asveikau on July 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets

It was an old joke that the opposite of "goto" is "come from", or that if goto is considered harmful, nobody said anything about a "come from". Marking something as a branch target reminds me of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

dejj on July 14, 2023 [–]

> GOTO considered harmful

COMEFROM considered harm-mitigating

It ingeniously makes Return Oriented Programming (ROP) a lot harder.

messe on July 14, 2023 | [–]

> COMEFROM considered harm-mitigating

You know, that’d be a fantastic OpenBSD release name.

Here’s hoping a dev sees this comment; there’s already been a few commenting in this thread.

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