>On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Oleg Pekar (olpekar) <olpe...@cisco.com>
>wrote:
>> I'm using gcc 4.1.2, it supports -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE option for c files but
>> not for c++. I'm looking for gcc version number where support for this
>> option in c++ files was added.
>I'm not sure how to answer your question, because -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE is not a
>GCC feature. It is a glibc feature. It causes glibc to change some function
>definitions to use features that are provided by GCC.
>As far as I know, all the _FORTIFY_SOURCE features that GCC provides are
>available in both C and C++.
>So, please give us an example of something that fails with g++ and
>-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE that you expect to work.
>Ian
I created a tiny program test.c:
#include <memory.h>
int main()
{
char buf[4];
memcpy(buf, "1234", 5);
return 0;
}
Then I compile it with gcc 4.1.2 on Red Hat Linux 5.5. When I compile it as c
file - gcc performs the check specified by FORTIFY_SOURCE, when I compile it as
c++ file - it doesn't.
dev /tmp>gcc -x c -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -o test.exe -lstdc++ test.c
test.c: In function \u2018main\u2019:
test.c:6: warning: call to __builtin___memcpy_chk will always overflow
destination buffer
dev /tmp>gcc -x c++ -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -o test.exe -lstdc++ test.c
dev /tmp>
