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Re: [PATCH 13/14 v7] Do not stack-protect sigreturn stubs.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Nick Alcock <nick dot alcock at oracle dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 15:52:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14 v7] Do not stack-protect sigreturn stubs.
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On 06/07/2016 01:06 PM, Nix wrote:
* signal/Makefile (CFLAGS-sigreturn.c): Use
$(no-stack-protector).
I still don't think C implementations of sigreturn are reliable (in the
sense that they keep working despite future compiler changes). I think
it's just laziness not have a separate .S file.
But there does not seem to be consensus about this alternative approach,
so this patch is okay.
Thanks,
Florian