On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:00:33PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > I was finally able to acquire an SSP Build Host for you. > > If you are still interest. Please contact me. > > A bit quick off the mark there, Greg! I think I've replied to all > your previous mails within a day or two...? > > Anyway for anybody else watching. This host is going to be used > for rebuilding Debian's Stable release, Sarge, with the SSP > compiler. > > The SSP compiler is a patch against GCC and offers "Stack Smashing > Protection". In short it gives protection against buffer overflow > bugs, and attacks.
Steve, you are aware that GCC 4.1 will include a complete reimplementaton of this feature, right? Wouldn't time be better spent with that than with the obsolete SSP patches? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
