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On Monday 31 July 2006 09:51, Jure Varlec wrote: |
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> On Monday 31 July 2006 00:35, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > dont waste your time on gcc-3.x |
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> Please tell me then, is hardened gcc 4.1 the way to go? |
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i guess that depends who you ask and how you look at it ;) |
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gcc-3.x is dead; any time bugs are encountered in the ssp in 3.x, there's |
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basically nothing we can do about it people generally lack the technical |
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ability to go into the gcc-3.x ssp source code base and fix it |
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gcc-4.1 is alive and any ssp issues encountered can be pushed upstream and the |
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gcc folks will resolve them |
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when it comes to integration with Gentoo though, gcc-3.x is fully |
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integrated ... real work has not been started to move to gcc-4.1+ for |
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hardened though, just some foundations have been laid |
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-mike |
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