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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: does -fstack-protector work for gcc 4.1 on Darwin 8?
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hde0hwox.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050804034851.GB18262@redhat.com> (Richard Henderson's message of "4 Aug 2005 04:50:56 +0100")

On 4 Aug 2005, Richard Henderson whispered secretively:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:39:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>     Do you think I should be able to build gcc itself with the
>> -fstack-protector flag and what is the most appropriate way to
>> achieve that (ie brute force using a CFLAG or some configure
>> flag)?
> 
> Considering that I don't think that self-building with 
> -fstack-protector will ever be common, I don't think we
> ought to spend too many brain cells on this.

It was always possible with the SSP implementation, FWIW.
(This was useful to get a libgcc compiled with -fstack-protector,
although it's true that changing the TCFLAGS in gcc/Makefile
also lets you do that.)

> The only way to bootstrap with -fstack-protector without
> existing support in libc is to use a top-level bootstrap.

... which is reasonable, I think. (This was also true of
SSP.)

-- 
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 subterranean editing facilities not unlike Moria' -- James Nicoll 

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-08 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-04  1:42 Jack Howarth
2005-08-04  3:50 ` Richard Henderson
2005-08-08 22:48   ` Nix [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-04  5:18 Jack Howarth
2005-08-04  1:15 Jack Howarth
2005-08-04  0:52 Jack Howarth
2005-08-04  0:54 ` Eric Christopher
2005-08-04  1:03 ` Richard Henderson

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