On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:11:28 -0500
"Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 01/09/2014 03:58 PM, Magnus Granberg wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Some time ago we discussed that we should enable stack smashing 
> > (-fstack-protector) by default.  So we opened a bug to track this [1].  
> > The affected Gcc version will be 4.8.2 and newer. Only amd64, x86, mips,
> > ppc, ppc64 and arm will be affected by this change. 
> > 
> > You can turn off ssp by using the nossp USE flag or by adding 
> > -fno-stack-protector to the CFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS. We are using the same 
> > patch as Debian/Ubuntu but with some Gentoo fixes.
> 
> Please avoid "noblah" use flags.
> 
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/
> 
> ssp flag that defaults to on is fine.

This flag already exists and has always worked this way.  We don't have USE
defaults yet.


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