Re: Bug#171699: gcc-3.2: please include the stack-protector patch

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Subject: Re: Bug#171699: gcc-3.2: please include the stack-protector patch
From: martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis)
Date: 04 Dec 2002 20:31:06 +0100
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Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org> writes:

> Please include the stack-protector patch from
> http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/gcc3_2/protector-3.2-5.tar.gz

This wish is unlikely to be implemented. If you want to see this to
become part of Debian gcc, I recommend that you first ask GCC
maintainers to incorporate. Once it is incorporated upstream, it is
much more reasonable to incorporate a backport to gcc 3.2 in Debian.

Regards,
Martin

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