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Every modern compiler usually has extensions that allow for bits of assembly to be inserted alongside the usual C or C++ code.

Unless the compiler is also patched to either disallow inserted assembly, or to modify the inserted assembly (this being both hard and dangerous), someone who wants to exploit the bug will just add their own inserted assembly code that exploits the bug, and a patched compiler won't help one bit in that case.



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