On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:16 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > > > > The big reason would be because gcc 3.3.x (the stable compiler on x86) > > doesn't support it. It has a patch that adds the option to gcc, but it > > does nothing. Until x86 is on 3.4.x by default, you can't expect full > > support for stack-protector. > > > > I hadn't even realized that. And I thought that amd64 tended to lag > behind! As I recall 3.4 had quite a few benefits, as I normally don't > tend to run bleeding-edge...
Yeah. 3.3.x had big problems on amd64, which were fixed in 3.4, so we moved to 3.4 ahead of x86. Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
