On 2/19/20 10:24 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:37 PM Bernd Edlinger
> <bernd.edlin...@hotmail.de> wrote:
>>
>>> It has been almost a year since GCC 8.3 has been released and GCC 8.4
>>> release should have been released already, so we should concentrate on
>>> getting it out soon.  Unfortunately we have two P1s, one of them is
>>> waiting for reporter's input, so we might as well just ignore it unless
>>> the input is provided, but the other, C++ FE one, looks something that
>>> should be fixed.  If we get rid of the P1s, I'd like to create
>>> 8.4-rc1 on Wednesday, Feb 26th and release 8.4 the week afterwards.
>>> If you have any queued backports, please commit them to 8 branch
>>> (and 9 branch too, we'd like to release 9.3 soon too).
>>
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> it just occurred to me that my patch here is a kind of
>> security relevant one:
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2020-02/msg01060.html
>>
>> since every time the collect2 process is interrupted via a signal
>> it can delete random files from the hard drive, since the
>> signal handler may be using the path name, and passes it to the unlink
>> function before it is initialized.
>>
>> The patch doe not apply cleanly to gcc-8, but just fixing
>> that issue, without tackling the cleanup at the same time should
>> be feasible, if you like that for this version?
> 
> Sure, these kind of fixes are always welcome, but please  post them
> for review.
> 

OK, posted here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2020-02/msg01104.html

Bernd.

> Richard.
> 
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bernd.

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