Re: Sourceware mitigating and preventing the next xz-backdoor
Andrew Haley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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On 4/3/24 15:56, Stephen Webb via Gdb wrote: > Using feature detection is entirely unnecessary if you guarantee you're > only every going to target self-hosted builds on x86_64-linux-gnu > running on recent commodity server or desktop hardware. > > For everything else, yes, it's absolutely required. Not even x86_64-linux-gnu can escape. We recently added a feature detection macro to one upstream project because a useful library was forced to break its ABI, in turn because of a symbol conflict with other libraries. Shit happens. Autoconf is for then. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671