On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:17 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:35, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > gcc-3 supports both -nopie and -fno-stack-protector. So always using > > > these would be ok if it were not for gcc-4 which doesn't grok > > > -fno-stack-protector. > > > > yes it does > > Oh. I had reports from ppc devs who said that gcc-4 didn't recognise > that flag. > > I also heard that gcc-4 contains a re-written stack protector > implementation with different semantics and that was why it didn't > recognise the flag anymore. > > > every gcc in portage by default supports -fno-stack-protector > > So that includes gcc 4 then. Well that makes life easier. :-) > > I presume it's a gentoo patch to gcc-4 to add back in > -fno-stack-protector?
For the 4.0.x it should be just a dummy call. For 4.1 it is included. What does change and is really uncool with 4.1 is that -fno-stack-protector-all is missing and wont be added back without several somebodies making a case for it upstream. -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
