From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422683AbWG2HmA (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422687AbWG2HmA (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:42:00 -0400 Received: from mga08.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:12134 "EHLO orsmga102-1.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422683AbWG2HmA (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:42:00 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.07,194,1151910000"; d="scan'208"; a="98165195:sNHT14971089" Message-ID: <44CB1139.1060403@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:41:45 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: David Miller , ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] Add the -fstack-protector option to the CFLAGS References: <200607282045.05292.ak@suse.de> <1154112511.6416.46.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200607282305.k6SN5e0k015125@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060728.161215.98863664.davem@davemloft.net> <200607282351.k6SNpinN017263@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200607282351.k6SNpinN017263@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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