Anyone here familiar enough with gcc to comment on StackGuard [1], and whether it'd be a good thing to use for system services/daemons in Mandrake Linux? It looks like it's not been kept up to date.
Liam
[1] http://www.immunix.org/stackguard.html
The main problem is that they use obsolete compilers, such as egcs 1.1.2. That's more than two years old. egcs-1.1.2-StackGuard is dated 9 Feb 2001. We shipped 6-7 compilers since then:
gcc 2.95.2 gcc 2.96 gcc 3.0 gcc 3.1 gcc 3.2 gcc 3.2.1 gcc 3.2.2
Maybe this one?
http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/
Bye. Giuseppe.
