Re: rawhide report: 20050710 changes

[Brian Gerst <bgerst didntduck org>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:38 +0200, Dawid Gajownik wrote:
>
> > Dnia 07/10/2005 01:13 PM, Użytkownik Build System napisał:
> >
> >
> > > gcc-4.0.1-1
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> > > - -fstack-protector{,-all} support (Richard Henderson)
> >
> > Will all the programs be compiled with this option? 
>
>
> that's the plan yes.
>
>
> > If yes, 
> > stack-smashing protection will be FC5's killer feature :D
>
>
> it's an extension of the FC4 killer feature of FORTIFY_SOURCE :)
> but yes it's a very cool feature
>
> (if you saw the flamewar on linuxthreads... this is one of the reasons
> linuxthreads will die)

What exactly does it do?

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				Brian Gerst