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Re: [PATCH 09/17 v6] Work even with compilers hacked to enable -fstack-protector by default.

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:04:48 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17 v6] Work even with compilers hacked to enable -fstack-protector by default.
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On 13 Mar 2016 15:16, Nix wrote:
> With all the machinery we just added, we can easily arrange to work even
> when the compiler passes in -fstack-protector automatically: all the
> necessary bits of glibc are always compiled with -fno-stack-protector
> now.
> 
> So tear out the check in configure, and add appropriate calls to
> -fno-stack-protector in tests that need them (largely those that use
> -nostdlib), since we don't yet have a __stack_chk_fail() that those
> tests can rely upon.  (GCC often provides one, but we cannot rely on
> this, especially not when bootstrapping.)

looks ok to me
-mike

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