On Wednesday October 15 2008 04:21:34 pm Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. wrote: > > When GCC 4.1 released libssp, Glibc copied all of libssp in to Glibc, for > > better performance. > > Statically?
In libc.so. I'm not sure what you mean by statically.
> > This happened in Glibc 2.4 or 2.5. If you're running a
> > new Glibc, libssp can not be used because it will conflict with identical
> > functions in Glibc.
> >
> > The only way I can think of using libssp is when cross compiling...
> > linking to another libc with no ssp support, and libssp.a.
This probably wouldn't work by the way, if libssp.a has symbols from Glibc.
> Let me see if I get the point. The Stack Smash protector run without the
> presence of libssp.{so,a}, is that?!?!
Yes.
robert
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