On Nov 7, 10:09am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: ssp and gcc-4.1

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| On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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| > 3. libssp-kern.diff: These are non-working diffs to eliminate alloca
| > 	and variable array allocations from the kernel. Issues:
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| Why do alloca / variable array allocations need to be eliminated with  
| ssp?

Because the caller function cannot pre-compute the amount of stack space
the callee is going to use in order to place the stack signature I think.

christos