> I would think the generic -fstack-protector testcases would already pick
> this up. But apparently there doesn't exist any testcase for it! So
> this failure mode wasn't detected either. Oh well.
>
> Not something I'll ask you to improve then!
Okay.
So if everything is good, can the changes b
On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 12:51:09PM +0530, Ayappan wrote:
> > I would think the generic -fstack-protector testcases would already pick
> > this up. But apparently there doesn't exist any testcase for it! So
> > this failure mode wasn't detected either. Oh well.
> >
> > Not something I'll ask you
All active releases I would say. That would be GCC 13, 14 and 15 if I am
not wrong.
Thanks
Ayappan
On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM Segher Boessenkool <
seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 09:54:41PM +0530, Ayappan wrote:
> > Yes, that would be really helpful.
>
> What re
On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 09:54:41PM +0530, Ayappan wrote:
> Yes, that would be really helpful.
What release branches do you want this backported to, then? I cannot
(always) read minds :-)
Segher
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM Segher Boessenkool <[1]
> seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 03:01:27PM +0530, Ayappan wrote:
> > Wow. So this shortcoming harks back to the origin of time.
> >
> > Why was it not discovered before, do you think? No one ever tried it?
> >
> > Should we have a testcase for it? _Do_ we have a testcase for it?
>
> I came to know abou
> Wow. So this shortcoming harks back to the origin of time.
>
> Why was it not discovered before, do you think? No one ever tried it?
>
> Should we have a testcase for it? _Do_ we have a testcase for it?
I came to know about this recently when working with a build failure
of Cpython in AIX. Re
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 10:01:54AM +0530, Ayappan wrote:
> All active releases I would say. That would be GCC 13, 14 and 15 if I am not
> wrong.
Wow. So this shortcoming harks back to the origin of time.
Why was it not discovered before, do you think? No one ever tried it?
Should we have a te
Excellent. Thank you. Okay for trunk, as David said.
Do you want backports for this?
Segher
On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 07:22:17PM +0530, Ayappan Perumal wrote:
> From: Ayappan Perumal
>
> ---
> stack-protector is not supported in GCC on AIX. This patch is to fail the
> compilation if -fstack-
Yes, that would be really helpful.
Thanks
Ayappan
On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM Segher Boessenkool <
seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Excellent. Thank you. Okay for trunk, as David said.
>
> Do you want backports for this?
>
>
> Segher
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 07:22:17PM +0530, Ayapp
