Tag: compiler

Frame-Pointer Omission /Oy

I just read a post on frame pointer omission (FPO) optimization, also known as /Oy compiler flag. And a comment from Vladimir Scherbina on problems getting the feature actually work. I wondered if there has been any improvement with a Visual Studio .NET 2008 SP1. latest compiler from Microsoft and briefly – the result is…

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/GS Buffer Security Check

Microsoft C++ compiler offers a buffer security check option since quite a long ago. It adds so called “security cookies” onto stack and checks them to be not modified by code in order to early-detect stack buffer overflow conditions. The compiler option /GS is enabled by default in Release configurations and is not applicable to…

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