-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2014 05:21 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-09, o godz. 17:06:52 > "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > >> On 01/09/2014 04:57 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> What are the advantages of disabling SSP to deserve that "special" >>> handling via USE flag or easily disabling it appending the flag? >> >> There are some cases where ssp could break things. I know of once case >> right now, but its somewhat exotic. Also, sometimes we *want* to break >> things for testing. I'm thinking here of instance where we want to test >> a pax hardened kernel to see if it catches abuses of memory which would >> otherwise be caught by executables emitted from a hardened toolchain. >> Take a look at the app-admin/paxtest suite. > > Just to be clear, are we talking about potential system-wide breakage > or single, specific packages being broken by SSP? In other words, are > there cases when people will really want to disable SSP completely? > > Unless I'm misunderstanding something, your examples sound like you > just want -fno-stack-protector per-package. I don't really think you > actually want to rebuild whole gcc just to do some testing on a single > package... > Or just as easily set -fno-stack-protector in CFLAGS in make.conf.
I never felt manipulating cflags with use flags was a great idea, but in this case is does feel extra pointless. Personally I don't feel this is needed, and the added benefit of clearing up a bogus "noblah" use flag makes me smile. Zorry, do we really need this flag? - -Zero -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSzyLGAAoJEKXdFCfdEflKo44QAJ4wYfgHdLYffTPaiXZe2ZJn 3jPxaZX47m7BjgdtePZZncClby5h84cG+Jchb0pn/a6K6TknpiFXLQzArsJbMH0N th7cuuuS4iFQMw2xq8hNAvGAdMF4R0+/OSpBkzlskakcCVRHgV+KCz9llimny4hB RbTXK9Irva0bwYb5IkmTq+/JVqHjB5DyXUYMu32vdvgz8uxTPXXHHO5HtPlkLeiq YsumFhnHFb5d+yPvPzZ3YSMJyuHHtBeZFCOJoirtxL08+yr5dZhgppEbqkMJcHIG r1xKxPqFSmccHSJ8mCZ+l3mvrSL7Akd7D9c7Rk6hZ8RpMQnxCTNb3/Twq6oqAqKm JfcU1B6rKIDz6eZOtMmVMyVcfnlo7MHO/resmFCS/BYN5AyqyfHgn+I4OU4IVCvQ 2jaZOwxeXGePgkwK37ebK/274N63lSkQAbaB0K43oqvsmtNuq+qZQQEm7jkY+0Vu SYKc3y4hXeLvexxteiR559fB7zJ1zPIsvvOWrqVP7euYezPMI7cjamz+7VHJYyH4 3RdGpro4Qg7OOTr42naBsWBW20nRTecWpm6kg0jyJo9eSD5YPzLq5r9ITcv7c6mB /6OxgqbVubzxpo9+kpY/11rEgQx5li4wKbLVsBY3n/f+tDCi1GNTu2k6ottdgrt2 XgsAKT4j/dUq8dhh80P7 =9pZW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
