more -fstack-protector!
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Mar 6 16:16:05 MST 2013
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 09:22 -0500, Ira Cooper wrote:
> This patch adds the ability to:
>
> --disable-stack-protector (For those who don't want it.)
> --enable-stack-protector-all (For debugging or the paranoid.)
>
> Both builds have been tested locally on illumos. (As far as that they
> build.)
>
> In the future, please don't default flags like this, without a toggle to
> turn them off.
On a more meta level:
In Samba, with very, very few fixed-length strings on the stack (die,
pstring, die), where does -fstack-protector help? Can we get some
diagnostics as to where this is being applied, such that the cost 1%
cost is showing up?
Thanks,
Andrew Bartlett
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