From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30878 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2005 22:40:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 30852 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jul 2005 22:40:01 -0000 Received: from x93.infopact.nl (HELO x93.infopact.nl) (212.29.160.93) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 22:40:01 +0000 Received: from 63-66-dsl.ipact.nl (63-66-dsl.ipact.nl [84.35.66.63]) by x93.infopact.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j69MdkIe011463; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:39:47 +0200 From: Steven Bosscher To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: 4.1 news item Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 22:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , Daniel Berlin References: <1120855271.7999.13.camel@linux.site> <1120870920.7757.22.camel@linux.site> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507100039.50085.stevenb@suse.de> X-Spam-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00336.txt.bz2 On Sunday 10 July 2005 00:16, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > Here's a patch. > > Thanks. > > There are a couple of commas between items missing (usually when > there is a line break) and some of the lines are too long (as with > GCC sources we generally prefer lines no longer than ~77 characters). > > Is the new stack checking infrastructure really a port of IBM Pro > Police, or a reimplementation by RTH and Jakub? RTH said (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg01193.html): // The following is a functional re-implementation of the IBM stack smashing protection patch described here: http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ This version is *much* less intrusive than the IBM version: // Looks like a re-implementation to me, then! ;-) Gr. Steven