Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- Busted toolchain? -- usr/klibc/exec_l.c:59: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02T18:05:19Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>
>> Obviously, but at that time we should enable -fno-stack-protector vs
>
> -fno-stack-protector doesn't even exist afaics; simply because gcc has
> this as a positive commandline option only..

You actively have to fight gcc's internals to make a boolean option
positive only, and that's a good thing. The only reason it's possible
at all are as a way to deal with multistate options.

-hpa