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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage to die on sure-enough _FORTIFY_SOURCE overflows
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:32:22
Message-Id: 20100928223545.1fe51e5a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage to die on sure-enough _FORTIFY_SOURCE overflows by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:25:38 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > > Something I forgot to ask before: are the 'always overflow' warnings new
5 > > w/ GCC 4.5 / glibc 2.12? If they're new w/ 4.5 then we don't have a
6 > > problem.
7 >
8 > the fortify warnings typically come from glibc, not gcc. i dont believe many
9 > of these warnings are new. the portage update i posted was because i was
10 > reviewing a specific package, noticed a worrisome warning (and fixed it), and
11 > then proceeded to data mine the last years worth of build logs on my system
12 > for gcc warnings.
13
14 Okay, I noticed that some of these bugs are only happening with 4.5 (eg.
15 337020) so I thought it might have been expanded to catch more cases or
16 something.
17
18
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