Bug#213994: gcc-3.3: Please provide an overflow protection in the stock compiler
* Matthias Klose (doko@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña writes:
> > Even if Debian packages might not be compiled with this protection, it
> > would make it easier for Debian-derived distributions to recompile packages
> > if Debian's compilers already featured this option.
>
> a stack-protector patch is included (but not applied) in
> debian/patches. I'll do the same with stackguard, if you send me a
> working patch.
If this is something that would have no effect except when enabled by
a compile time switch then I'd appreciate it if it was actually applied.
It could encourage package maintainers to build with it.
Dave
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