Re: Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3

Rich Freeman <[email protected]> skribis:
> Usually use flags that are discouraged are intended mainly to solve
> limitations in how we express dependencies/etc.  It isn't that we
> don't want users to use them, but more that in the future we might
> change how they work and they could go away, causing trouble for those
> who depend on them.  Think of them as unintentionally-exposed private
> interfaces.

My view on this current problem is that, given -fno-stack-protector in
the make.conf works nearly everywhere, there isn’t a problem as far as
building the OS is concerned. As for a ‘user compiler’, this seems not
to be a serious change, either.

(An example of actually making life harder for a user are the
default-settings changes in Debian’s GNU linker. They make it harder
than with stock GNU to construct dynamic plugins.)