Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> * 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?

I'll ask ;-)

Thanks,
Andreas
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