El jue, 09-01-2014 a las 21:58 +0100, Magnus Granberg escribió: > Hi > > Some time ago we discussed that we should enable stack smashing > (-fstack-protector) by default. So we opened a bug to track this [1]. > The affected Gcc version will be 4.8.2 and newer. Only amd64, x86, mips, ppc, > ppc64 and arm will be affected by this change. > > You can turn off ssp by using the nossp USE flag or by adding > -fno-stack-protector to the CFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS. We are using the same > patch as Debian/Ubuntu but with some Gentoo fixes. > > The patch will move the sed for the HARD_CFLAGS, ALLCFLAGS and > ALLCXXFLAGS from do_gcc_PIE_patches() to make_gcc_hard(). We will > make_gcc_hard() the default for all Gcc versions 4.8 and newer, and turn > it on or off with hardened_gcc_works() that will make some sanity checks. > > /Magnus
What are the advantages of disabling SSP to deserve that "special" handling via USE flag or easily disabling it appending the flag? Thanks a lot for the info :)
