[PATCH] D30886: [ELF] Pad x86 executable sections with 0xcc int3 instructions

Rui Ueyama via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Mar 13 09:32:13 PDT 2017


ruiu added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30886#699194, @joerg wrote:

> Does this have any impact on compressibility of executables? E.g. gzip or xz.


We should just measure it, but I don't expect that this would severely hurt compressability of executables. This patch fills gaps that used to be filled with zero bytes with another repetitive bit pattern, so it shouldn't increase entropy that much.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D30886





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