Hi Chung-Lin. Could you please take care of this upstream? The short story is that many distributions, including Fedora and Ubuntu, build GCC with the stack protector turned on by default. This is both inappropriate for and could interfere with libgcc. We'd like to ensure the stack protector is turned off by adding -fno-stack-protector to the libgcc build rules.
I've created LP: #628526 to track this. See the link below for how Ubuntu does it. I'd like the change in Linaro GCC 4.4 and 4.5. -- Michael On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote: > I agree. It's also inappropriate for something as low level as libgcc > to have dependencies on other libraries such as libssp. > > We'll propose a patch adding '-fno-stack-protector' to the gcc list > and see how it goes. > > -- Michael > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Mark Mitchell <m...@codesourcery.com> wrote: >> On 9/1/2010 2:10 PM, Michael Hope wrote: >> >>> 3. Should libgcc be built without -fstack-protector? >> >> To put it more strongly, I believe that libgcc should not be built with >> -fstack-protector. >> >> I don't think there's any reason to expect that all code in libgcc would >> continue to work with stack-protection checks inserted (e.g., low-level >> primitives for thread safety or exception-handling, where chaos may >> ensue if a fault occurs in the midst of the stack-protection code). >> Furthermore, those checks will increase overhead for all users of the >> library. And, if libgcc has dependencies on other shared libraries, >> that could potentially break binary compatibility across Linux >> distributions. >> >> If someone wants to build libgcc with -fstack-protector, that would >> require an assessment of all code in libgcc to make sure that is safe. >> libgcc is emphatically not "application" code. >> >> -- >> Mark Mitchell >> CodeSourcery >> m...@codesourcery.com >> (650) 331-3385 x713 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linaro-toolchain mailing list >> linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain >> > _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
