Am 12.04.2014 09:22, schrieb Allan McRae: > Hi all, > > gcc-4.9 is due to be released on the 22nd. This brings a new stack > protection flag, -fstack-protector-strong. See this blog post for some > details [1]. > > I would like to do two things with the release of gcc-4.9: > 1) Add -fstack-protector-strong to our CFLAGS > 2) Rebuild all [core] packages > > The rebuild would not only add the extra stack protection, but also > ensure all [core] packages have .MTREE files (which become more useful > with the next pacman release, although still do not test checksums).
Don't they already have them? > Any opinions on both of these points? The kernel also has a new option CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG in 3.14. Obviously, this is currently disabled in our build.
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