rawhide report: 20050710 changes

[Brian Gerst]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:38 +0200, Dawid Gajownik wrote:
> 
>>Dnia 07/10/2005 01:13 PM, Użytkownik Build System napisał:
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>>>gcc-4.0.1-1
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>>[snip]
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>>>- -fstack-protector{,-all} support (Richard Henderson)
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>>Will all the programs be compiled with this option? 
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> 
> that's the plan yes.
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>>If yes, 
>>stack-smashing protection will be FC5's killer feature :D
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> 
> it's an extension of the FC4 killer feature of FORTIFY_SOURCE :)
> but yes it's a very cool feature
> 
> (if you saw the flamewar on linuxthreads... this is one of the reasons
> linuxthreads will die)
> 

What exactly does it do?

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				Brian Gerst