On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/09/2014 03:58 PM, Magnus Granberg wrote: > > Hi > > > > Some time ago we discussed that we should enable stack smashing > > (-fstack-protector) by default. So we opened a bug to track this [1]. > > The affected Gcc version will be 4.8.2 and newer. Only amd64, x86, mips, > > ppc, > > ppc64 and arm will be affected by this change. > > > > You can turn off ssp by using the nossp USE flag or by adding > > -fno-stack-protector to the CFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS. We are using the same > > patch as Debian/Ubuntu but with some Gentoo fixes. > > Please avoid "noblah" use flags. > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ > > ssp flag that defaults to on is fine.
Agreed; please do not introduce this with a "nossp" use flag. Thanks, William
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