Re: Failure to build sysutils/memtestplus

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:46:24PM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote:
> So, for everyone like me who didn't realize that gcc had stack smashing
> protection since version 4.9 you might want to check out this article:

It is far older than that.

> However, I'm surprised that using it doesn't break half the stuff you
> compile. That was my recollection of using ProPolice, but perhaps
> that's all changed nowadays.

The early version of ProPolice wasn't exactly the most production-ready
code, i.e. the GCC changes themselve where buggy. But that's about it.

Joerg