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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Multiarch hooks for memcpy variants
On 14/08/17 14:28, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Monday 14 August 2017 06:50 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> does anyone know how commonly distros build
>> with _FORTIFY_SOURCE?
>
> Fedora does it by default:
>
> -14: __global_compiler_flags -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches %{_hardened_cflags}
>
it seems the firefox on my system is compiled with
_FORTIFY_SOURCE, so i checked libxul.so:
memcpy calls: 2570 (95.5%)
__memcpy_chk calls: 122 (4.5%)
it seems it's rare that the destination is an array
with known size, so _chk is rarely used, to me it
makes more sense to add static inline __memcpy_chk
to string.h than fiddle with asm and ifunc.