Hi,
On 18 Aug 2019, at 08:35, Shawn Webb shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org wrote:
Having the heap implementation selectable at runtime would enable users to make the determination for themselves, while also making future integration efforts easier through modularization/abstraction APIs (I'm making a silly, naive, and likely wrong, assumption that such APIs don't already exist.)
I hope I'm not coming off as "hey, do this." I'm just thinking out loud in an admittedly naive fashion.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Allowing users to select the allocator at runtime would split the anonymity set, *if* the allocator was detectable remotely.
This is why we try to use safe defaults, and avoid user-selected options. When we do give users options, we create a few well-defined settings (like the security slider).
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