Re: [patch 5/5] Add the -fstack-protector option to the CFLAGS

Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-29T07:42:00Z

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:12:15 PDT, David Miller said:
>
>> Your gcc-4.1.1 includes the -fstack-protector feature, but it might
>> not have the gcc bug fix necessary to make that feature work on the
>> kernel compile, which is why the version check is necessary.
>
> Whee. A busticated feature - how annoying.

actually it's the kernel that has a differnet ABI than userspace, so it's not entirely gcc
that is to blame.

>
> Do you happen to know the exact PR# for that one?

it's gcc PR 28281