On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:54:27 +0200 Agostino Sarubbo <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 September 2013 12:47:01 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > What I wonder about here is at which cost this does come, when > > looking at the fstack-protector then I see that it "emits extra > > code"; so, now the question is what kind of overhead this causes. > > We use -fstack-protector-all in the hardened profile, so it is not > unknown at all. > > > I am pretty sure security might not be that important on a real time > > system that perhaps isn't connected to the internet; so, besides > > making it the default, we might want to introduce the necessary > > means to turn it off again, by the very least perhaps documentation > > would suffice. > > > > Do you intend to discuss that flag or more generally any security > > flag? > > I just want to point out the thread because other people will have > something to say about. Yes, I am aware of that, I am not saying it is unknown; but I am wondering about those questions: What kind of overhead does this cause? Do you intend to discuss that flag or more generally any security flag? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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