Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Magnus Granberg <zorry@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] To enable ssp default in Gcc the toolchain.eclass need some changes.
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:09:07
Message-Id: 1446166.mlyoc4zY7X@laptop1.gw.ume.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] To enable ssp default in Gcc the toolchain.eclass need some changes. by Pacho Ramos
1 torsdag 09 januari 2014 22.57.09 skrev Pacho Ramos:
2 > El jue, 09-01-2014 a las 21:58 +0100, Magnus Granberg escribió:
3 > > Hi
4 > >
5 > > Some time ago we discussed that we should enable stack smashing
6 > > (-fstack-protector) by default. So we opened a bug to track this [1].
7 > > The affected Gcc version will be 4.8.2 and newer. Only amd64, x86, mips,
8 > > ppc, ppc64 and arm will be affected by this change.
9 > >
10 > > You can turn off ssp by using the nossp USE flag or by adding
11 > > -fno-stack-protector to the CFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS. We are using the same
12 > > patch as Debian/Ubuntu but with some Gentoo fixes.
13 > >
14 > > The patch will move the sed for the HARD_CFLAGS, ALLCFLAGS and
15 > > ALLCXXFLAGS from do_gcc_PIE_patches() to make_gcc_hard(). We will
16 > > make_gcc_hard() the default for all Gcc versions 4.8 and newer, and turn
17 > > it on or off with hardened_gcc_works() that will make some sanity checks.
18 > >
19 > > /Magnus
20 >
21 > What are the advantages of disabling SSP to deserve that "special"
22 > handling via USE flag or easily disabling it appending the flag?
23 >
24 > Thanks a lot for the info :)
25
26 If you want Gcc not to build stuff with ssp as default you turn on the nossp
27 flag and rebuild Gcc.
28
29 /Magnus