https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59850
--- Comment #24 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to PaX Team from comment #23) > 3. designated_init is a tricky problem because by the time a plugin can > examine variable initializers, gcc will have lost the information. however > with a trick such unwanted initializers can instead be turned into a compile > error (that existing gcc infrastructure can detect). you can find it in > spender's randomize_layout plugin that's distributed in grsecurity. There is a patch for GCC that was basically approved in January: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-01/msg01284.html I am not sure why it hasn't been committed yet.
