Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger skrev:
> Here're the proposed agenda items for this weeks dist meeting.
>
> * Use fast linking style:
>
>   The linker & glibc in 10.2 support the --hash-style=both (or just
>   gnu) flag, which halves linking time [ still a major cost on all
>   startup]. Unfortunately - it seems we only re-compiled glibc with
>   this flag, and not all the other applications in the system :-) Risk
>   wise this is a no-brainer, RedHat are already shipping with
>   --hash-style=gnu [ this is unfortunate since the binaries are then
>   not back-compatible ]. We should most likely use --hash-style=both
>   (at some small size penalty) - but after some time switch over to
>   --hash-style=gnu to save size.
>
> * libata per default (see minutes from last time - the partitioning
>   question is still open)
>
> * Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package
>   by default
>
>   Red Hat according to their press statements builds all of their
>   distribution using -fstack-protector, the heuristic stack overflow
>   detection. While we use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, this one only covers
>   known arrays. I think we should also enable -fstack-protector for
>   all packages. If we enable it by default in the compiler, all
>   software will automatically get the benefit too.
>   

Is it known what impact on performance this will have?

> Please send me your comments and additions,
>  
> Andreas
>   
Simon
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