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On Monday 07 May 2012 22:45:16 Roland McGrath wrote: > It is my considered professional opinion as an expert in the field > that the hacking of the compiler to default to -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE > and -fstack-protector is silly. why ? glibc isn't immune to string/memory bugs (which things like fortify catches), nor stack smashing (which ssp protects against). iirc, it's possible to build glibc with ssp today as long as you make sure it's turned off for the ldso itself. i'd have to check the patches we use in Gentoo though. -mike
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