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Re: [PATCH 01/18] Configury support for --enable-stack-protector.


On 9 Mar 2016, nix@esperi.org.uk uttered the following:

> [Use -fstack-protector[-all|-strong] to detect glibc stack overflows]

Obviously this was stupid. That's not what -fstack-protector does!
What was I thinking...

This is better:

[Use -fstack-protector[-all|-strong] to detect glibc buffer overflows]


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