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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] newlib: undefine _FORTIFY_SOURCE
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:15:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tugmm33g.fsf@keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211109025656.26127-1-vapier@gentoo.org>

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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> Since newlib isn't prepared to build itself with _FORTIFY_SOURCE, and
> it's not clear if it's even useful, disable it when building the code.

It is useful; I've caught a few library bugs when I turned this on for
picolibc. Fixing newlib to handle -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE could probably start
with the patches I did in picolibc, which mostly just #undef the various
mem and str functions before defining them.

General code:

https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc/commit/c2c593afa60b64bff0a958ad930e0336463db5bf

Arm specific code:

https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc/commit/b3946840fb3a677125bc9232ca93ea7533375188


-- 
-keith

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-09  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-09  2:56 Mike Frysinger
2021-11-09  2:59 ` [PATCH alternative] newlib: ignore _FORTIFY_SOURCE when building newlib Mike Frysinger
2021-11-12 10:28   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-09  3:15 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2021-11-09 11:41   ` [PATCH] newlib: undefine _FORTIFY_SOURCE Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-10  2:07   ` Mike Frysinger

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