> advisory seems to imply that the OCaml compiler uses gcc for code generation, which it does not -- it generates assembly directly
Yes, but that assembly code contains calls into the OCaml runtime, for garbage collection etc. If I understand correctly, the particular loop affected by this bug was somewhere in this memory management code. That code is written in C and compiled with a C compiler.
Yes, but that assembly code contains calls into the OCaml runtime, for garbage collection etc. If I understand correctly, the particular loop affected by this bug was somewhere in this memory management code. That code is written in C and compiled with a C compiler.