On 13 Mar 2016 15:16, Nix wrote:
> With all the machinery we just added, we can easily arrange to work even
> when the compiler passes in -fstack-protector automatically: all the
> necessary bits of glibc are always compiled with -fno-stack-protector
> now.
> 
> So tear out the check in configure, and add appropriate calls to
> -fno-stack-protector in tests that need them (largely those that use
> -nostdlib), since we don't yet have a __stack_chk_fail() that those
> tests can rely upon.  (GCC often provides one, but we cannot rely on
> this, especially not when bootstrapping.)

looks ok to me
-mike