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