This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH 03/12] Mark all machinery needed in early static-link init as -fno-stack-protector.


On 15 Dec 2016, Florian Weimer outgrape:

> On 11/28/2016 01:32 PM, Nix wrote:
>> diff --git a/csu/Makefile b/csu/Makefile
>> index 31e8bb9..22afe67 100644
>> --- a/csu/Makefile
>> +++ b/csu/Makefile
>> @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ before-compile += $(objpfx)version-info.h
>>  tests := tst-empty tst-atomic tst-atomic-long
>>  tests-static := tst-empty
>>
>> +CFLAGS-.o += $(no-stack-protector)
>
> This also applies to the tests in the csu subdirectory, which is probably not what we want.

Definitely not!

> We have two options here: List the .c source files explicitly (like you do in string/), or move the test to a different subdirectory
> (perhaps misc/ or stdlib/).  In the second case, there should be an empty “tests” variable assignment in csu/Makefile which
> documents why there can't be any tests in this subdirectory.

Listing explicitly seems likely to be horrifically hard to maintain. I'm
not even sure how many .o's there *are* that this would apply to.

Is there really no way to say 'add these flags to all the tests' so we
can add a $(stack-protector) to that?

-- 
NULL && (void)


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]