On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 08:47:01PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > I got a bit lost with Jelinek's reply above. Aren't those tests specifically > for NetBSD's ssp(3), a.k.a. -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and not -fstack-protector?
Yes, the ticket could be improved, but actually the behaviour is identical. As long as you don't overwrite anything (due to stack layout or what have you) the ssp won't trigger - and the exact details are very machine dependent. Martin