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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:14:35 -0400 John Richard Moser |
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<nigelenki@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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| | Feel free to take on the ownership of making this work on every |
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| | arch's toolchain then. Also feel free to deal with all upstream |
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| | authors who start instantly dismissing any bugs from Gentoo due to |
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| | the fact that the toolchain is quite modified to accomplish this |
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| | task. Take the current stance the GAIM team has with us as an |
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| | example of what would be to come. |
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| SSP works on all architectures. |
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We already *know* that it breaks some critical things on sparc, and |
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we've added in code to filter out ssp where appropriate. Fact is, you |
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can't build a bootable sparc system if you remove these filters and |
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build everything with -fstack-protector. |
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| Yes and about 99.9999999% of your user base is probably going to say |
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| "wha? SSP? Wassat?" if you ask them if they use SSP. |
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Which can easily be solved by a few lines of documentation. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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