From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkBEz-0000dq-9E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:38:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5K1aB7j031467; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:36:11 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5K1aArs017066 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:36:11 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp0011842295pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[69.251.97.45]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20050620013643014009fjave>; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:36:44 +0000 Message-ID: <42B61E81.8090605@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:40:17 -0400 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] -fforce-addr in CFLAGS. References: <42B5BF3D.7010708@telia.com> <200506191728.37744.rutski89@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9fce539a-9218-459d-ad43-2752943cc314 X-Archives-Hash: 4085b074d06966cc573184f6b2b59a7f James Larkby-Lahet wrote: > > Anyone know, better with respect to what? (ie faster instructions, nicer > to the cache, "more" correct...) It's a safe flag. I've used it for the last two or so years on x86, sparc, and mips. I believe it complements -fforced-mem (which is implied by -O2, while -fforce-addr isn't). At one point, -fforce-addr solved a bug in ssp until the ssp maintainer implemented his own fix. --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-hardened@gentoo.org mailing list