Bug#149463: There should be a gcc version with stack protection patch
Philip Blundell writes:
> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:26, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > I don't think that a Debian bug report is the right place to "push" a
> > patch into gcc (i.e. to lobby for it).
> >
> > Instead, you should assume that all patches that have been submitted
> > to gcc-patches are implicitly Debian bug reports which already have
> > been forwarded upstream. The status of such a report changes when GCC
> > maintainers act on the patch (e.g. reject it).
>
> That's not strictly true. The version of GCC shipped with Debian does
> have extra patches applied to it, and lobbying to have another one added
> is a reasonable enough thing to do.
Closing the report. We are moving to gcc-3.1 as the default
compiler. Better to keep gcc-2.95 unchanged in this situation for a
fallback. Maybe you want to test/evaluate the patch for gcc-3.1 or the
current HEAD banch and re-submit it upstream?
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