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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:16 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: |
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> > The big reason would be because gcc 3.3.x (the stable compiler on x86) |
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> > doesn't support it. It has a patch that adds the option to gcc, but it |
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> > does nothing. Until x86 is on 3.4.x by default, you can't expect full |
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> > support for stack-protector. |
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> I hadn't even realized that. And I thought that amd64 tended to lag |
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> behind! As I recall 3.4 had quite a few benefits, as I normally don't |
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> tend to run bleeding-edge... |
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Yeah. 3.3.x had big problems on amd64, which were fixed in 3.4, so we |
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moved to 3.4 ahead of x86. |
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Daniel |
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