On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:11:37PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > 1. The stack canary > > You would need to change gcc with a new option and only allow the stack > checking when the compiler supports the new option. However the problem > is still how to get a reasonable fixed offset. Or perhaps just change > gcc to use a linker symbol relative to %gs that could be set to anything?
I still think we should leave the canary as is. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
