On 08 Nov 2021 19:15, Keith Packard wrote:
> 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.

i'm not against making it work, but it doesn't now, so we should disable the
logic if/until it's made to actually work.
-mike