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adrian_btoday at 4:07 AM1 replyview on HN

That is exactly what the poster to whom you replied said.

So Arm did not add another means to disable this kind of speculative execution, after Spectre was discovered, but they just reused the existing NX flag, expanding its functionality.


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samustoday at 10:39 AM

That poster wrote about speculative vulnerabilities. But buffer overflows have nothing to do with those.