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Re: Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:57:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1
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>> I'd like to create the 2.27 branch soon, and also to build the 2.26.1 release.
>> If you have any pending patch you'd like to have in one of these releases, please speak quickly!
>
> I propose to turn on "-z relro" by default if supported.
>
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20283
Isn't it kind of late to be considering this for 2.27?
And doesn't GCC already pass -z relro by default anyway where it's supported?
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