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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2012-03-30 18:22:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2012-04-24 10:51:55 +0200 |
| commit | 2a930eeaa11a10dc2ffcb200563ba5641ac15840 (patch) | |
| tree | 04246f0938fbcae11a66cebf3e7ac92d2104e8f5 /Porting/todo.pod | |
| parent | 03548f30e402504a7edba200e0bcb3605798d0c8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2a930eeaa11a10dc2ffcb200563ba5641ac15840.tar.gz | |
Remove the reference to -fstack-protector, which is done.
Exploring the use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 remains to be done.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/todo.pod b/Porting/todo.pod index 75bc3f1c02..8e38e8fe41 100644 --- a/Porting/todo.pod +++ b/Porting/todo.pod @@ -500,14 +500,13 @@ ever creep back to libperl.a. Note, of course, that this will only tell whether B<your> platform is using those naughty interfaces. -=head2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, -fstack-protector +=head2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Recent glibcs support C<-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2> and recent gcc -(4.1 onwards?) supports C<-fstack-protector>, both of which give +Recent glibcs support C<-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2> which gives protection against various kinds of buffer overflow problems. -These should probably be used for compiling Perl whenever available, +It should probably be used for compiling Perl whenever available, Configure and/or hints files should be adjusted to probe for the -availability of these features and enable them as appropriate. +availability of these feature and enable it as appropriate. =head2 Arenas for GPs? For MAGIC? |