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topspinyesterday at 9:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

One workaround Microsoft has done for use-after-free is detecting when an application is prone to this and using an allocator that doesn't actually free RAM immediately. It believe that lovely bit of fun is a function of "Heap Quarantine".

Yes, the real, can't say no world of system software is not what one might wish.


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Krutoniumyesterday at 9:50 PM

IIRC Sim City 2000 is one such piece of software.

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anthktoday at 12:30 AM

Not too different to using MS's mimalloc to run zenlisp under OpenBSD because the core malloc will just tell good try, but GTFO to the interpreter.