Re: future of bytecode verifier

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 4 Mar 2009, at 18:58, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> Following several bytecode exploits found by the relentless Peter  
> Cawley
> and others, we are considering dropping the bytecode verifier  
> completely in
> Lua 5.2. It seems useless to make a promise that we can't seem to  
> deliver
> without a much more complicated verifier than the current one, and  
> possibly
> with the need for costly runtime checks as well.

A bold move that sheds a load of code.  I like it.

drj