Article 5V2Q4 GCC 12 Ready To Help Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks

GCC 12 Ready To Help Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks

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Disclosed a few months back were "Trojan Source" attacks against compilers where specially crafted code could be rogue but not appear so due to exploiting Unicode issues. Unicode control characters could be used to reorder tokens in source code that could alter the behavior when compiled. With the upcoming GCC 12 compiler release there is a new warning to help point out possible Trojan Source attacks...
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