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Comment by rwmj

1 year ago

Shadow stacks have been proposed as an alternative, although it's my understanding that in current CPUs they hold only a limited number of frames, like 16 or 32?

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amluto  1 year ago

You may be thinking of the return stack buffer. The shadow stack holds every return address.

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