On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:16:42AM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote > > Looks like support for '-fstack-protector-strong' was implemented in > more recent versions of gcc. The the URL below for details: > > https://securityblog.redhat.com/tag/stack-protector/
Thanks for the explanation. The blog says... > GCC 4.8.1 and the GCC version in Fedora 19 added another mode, > -fstack-protector-strong, bringing the number of stack protector > modes up to three. Gentoo stable appears to be gcc-4.7.3-r1. ebuilds up to gcc-4.9.1 are present in the tree. Upgrading gcc is painful, so I appreciate the maintainers not forcing a rebuild with every version bump. That's the philosophy behind "stable". The tradeoff is that we have to wait longer for "new and shiney" stuff. For those who want it, you can always keyword a later version of gcc. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
