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gcc-4.9.2 surprised me by landing on ~amd64 today, and I'm still very vague |
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about the status of stack protection on gentoo. |
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I seem to recall reading (somewhere) that gcc-4.9.x is needed for compiling |
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the kernel with CONFIG_CC_STACK_PROTECTOR_STRONG so I've never tried it until |
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today. |
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Is my recollection accurate? Does gcc-4.9.x include more/different support |
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than gcc-4.8.x for stack protection? |
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Anyway, so far, so good. I recompiled and rebooted kernel 3.14.29 with strong |
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stack protection enabled and all seems good. (Uptime is 20 minutes and counting ;) |
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