Re: How to ensure not to fall into new Webassembly trap - was Re: Web versions

Richard Stallman <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:20:56 -0400
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We treat WebAssembly code just like minified code.  It is not
source code, so it ought to carry a pointer to the source code.

LibreJS does not have a way of verifying that the pointer points to
real source code or that the source code corresponds to the binary.
This is a shortcoming.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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