NEWS update about buffer overflow detection with GCC 10
Martin Sebor
msebor@gmail.com
Tue May 12 19:04:12 GMT 2020
If this is in line with Glibc's practices, I'd like to add a brief
mention in the NEWS of file the recent enhancement to annotate some
Glibc APIs with GCC 10 attribute access.
How does the paragraph below sound?
Martin
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 141078c319..5c5f099566 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ Major new features:
toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
this option.
+* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
+ a number of APIs have been annotated with GCC attribute accesss. This
+ allows GCC 10 to issue warnings for a greater subset such accesses
+ than previous versions.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
compatibility:
* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
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