has fortify helped?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:51:48AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Also, I noticed that Fedora
> doesn't seem to use libssp. Is that just not stable or not very
> effective to use? Just curious.

libssp is useful only on targets that don't have the necessary support
already in libc.  glibc (at least not prehistoric versions) do
support -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for far more functions than libssp)
as well as (more efficient) -fstack-protector,
so the only two reasons for using standalone libssp are gone.

	Jakub