Simon Strandman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package >> by default >> >> Red Hat according to their press statements builds all of their >> distribution using -fstack-protector, the heuristic stack overflow >> detection. While we use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, this one only covers >> known arrays. I think we should also enable -fstack-protector for >> all packages. If we enable it by default in the compiler, all >> software will automatically get the benefit too. >> > > Is it known what impact on performance this will have?
I'll ask ;-) Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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