Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-pkg-dev 1.3.3
* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> [2016-02-02 10:29]:
* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2016-02-01 18:20]:
In the particular case of the feature that you propose to activate
(bindnow), it seems that it has no drawback, so I am not opposed to
it, though I would still prefer to stick to the default flags by
principle.
I have no strong feeling on this. I was just following the Lintian
suggestion.
In the Lintian description of the hardening-no-bindnow tag [1], we read:
"If the ELF binary does not rely on late binding of symbols (e.g. weak
symbols), then please consider enabling this feature. Otherwise, please
consider overriding the tag (possibly with a comment about why)."
The issue then is whether Octave does early or late binding when loading
.oct files. Does anyone here know it ?
Rafael
1. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-bindnow.html
Reply to: