[PATCH 07/14 v6] Prevent the rtld mapfile computation from dragging in __stack_chk_fail*.

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Tue Jun 7 23:35:00 GMT 2016


On 06/07/2016 05:03 AM, Nix wrote:
> This and one comment in the same
> patch (also fixed) are the only places where I overflow lines that are
> fixable (configure.ac is more or less not fixable, AIUI).

Why is configure.ac not fixable? E.g., in this patch:

+	      AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-stack-protector=@<:@yes|no|all|strong@:>@],
+			     [Use -fstack-protector[-all|-strong] to detect glibc buffer overflows]),


The commentary can contain folded lines without problem (the extra indenting is removed), and the first line can be moved down, e.g.,

   AC_HELP_STRING(
     [--enable-stack-protector=@<:@yes|no|all|strong@:>@],
     [Use -fstack-protector[-all|-strong] to detect glibc
      buffer overflows]),




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