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Re: HEADS-UP: Stack Smash Protection enabled by default for amd64 and i386



On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:55:07PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> I've just enabled Stack Smash Protection by default for NetBSD/amd64
> and NetBSD/i386 in current. As a result kernels and userland will be
> build with "-fstack-protector" and eventually also "-Wstack-protector".

BTW: this change does *not* require you to recompile your packages
     or any other binaries. They will continue to work but have
     only limitted stack smash protection.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

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