https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68065
--- Comment #28 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > Are you saying that -fstack-check is ready for use? Why it's not > documented (except for Ada and in gccint)? !??? See 3.18 Options for Code Generation Conventions in the manual. > According to comments[1][2] by Florian Wiemer (cc'd) in 2013 it's not > production-ready and "used to be rather buggy". Is this changed? > > [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg01176.html > [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/23/4 Yes, at least on mainstream architectures (x86, x86-64, Alpha, MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC, IA-64). ARM and AArch64 need the PR middle-end/65958 changes.