Hello.

I have a question about Fedora's default build flags:
-Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS

Why do we use undocumented -Wp prefix?

From manpage:

The preprocessor’s direct interface is undocumented and subject to change, so 
whenever possible you should avoid using -Wp and let the driver handle the 
options instead.

According to the Matrix discussion, the prefix was added 19 years ago:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/c/1518ff2d14377c05ecf7cf9428e42964516883b4

The same build flags used on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will generate a warning/error:

<command-line>: error: "_FORTIFY_SOURCE" redefined [-Werror]
<command-line>: note: this is the location of the previous definition

Maybe it should be replaced with -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS?

--
Sincerely,
  Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)
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