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On Thursday 05 September 2013 12:47:01 Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> What I wonder about here is at which cost this does come, when looking |
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> at the fstack-protector then I see that it "emits extra code"; so, now |
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> the question is what kind of overhead this causes. |
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We use -fstack-protector-all in the hardened profile, so it is not unknown at |
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all. |
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> I am pretty sure security might not be that important on a real time |
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> system that perhaps isn't connected to the internet; so, besides making |
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> it the default, we might want to introduce the necessary means to turn |
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> it off again, by the very least perhaps documentation would suffice. |
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> Do you intend to discuss that flag or more generally any security flag? |
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I just want to point out the thread because other people will have something |
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to say about. |
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Agostino Sarubbo |
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