Firmware Reliability, Part 3: Stack Overflow Detection Without an MPU
Cortex-M0 and M0+ have no MPU. Stack canaries and paint-based high-water mark detection give you meaningful stack overflow coverage without hardware support.
Cortex-M0 and M0+ have no MPU. Stack canaries and paint-based high-water mark detection give you meaningful stack overflow coverage without hardware support.
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Part of Firmware Reliability (installment 3).
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- stack-overflow
- firmware
- reliability
- embedded
- cortex-m
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