On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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> On 01/09/2014 03:58 PM, Magnus Granberg wrote:
> > Hi
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> > 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. 
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> > 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.
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> Please avoid "noblah" use flags.
> 
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/
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> ssp flag that defaults to on is fine.

Agreed; please do not introduce this with a "nossp" use flag.

Thanks,

William