On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Simon Ruderich <si...@ruderich.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:11:41PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: >> Hi Simon, >> >> Thanks for your care, but I'm still not sure how useful to enable >> hardening in -dbg package, and I'm not sure if it will make debugging >> more difficult? The use of -O0 was deliberate by previous libxslt >> maintainer and I agree with such assessment at least for now. > > Hello Aron, > > -O0 is still used with my patch because later optimization flags > override previous ones. > > Hardening flags shouldn't make debugging more difficult because > no unfriendly optimizations take place and if -dbg and non-debug > package are built with the same flags no unexpected behavioral > changes happen (e.g. crash in non-debug package because > stack-protector is used but no crash in -dbg package; one > exception are the CPPFLAGS which are disabled with -O0). > > And using hardening flags for the complete package make automatic > checks for missing flags (e.g. blhc) possible. > > Regards, > Simon > -- > + privacy is necessary > + using gnupg http://gnupg.org > + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9
Thanks for your detailed explanation! I'll incorporate this change in my next upload, but I'm can't promise when it will happen. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
