[CFT/HEADSUP] Ports now have Stack Protector support

[Konstantin Tokarev]

21.09.2013, 18:26, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>:
> On 09/21/13 09:09, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>
>>  On 9/21/2013 9:00 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>>  On 09/21/13 05:47, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>>>  Ports now support enabling Stack Protector [1] support on FreeBSD 10
>>>>  i386 and amd64, and older releases on amd64 only currently.
>>>  Why only those architectures?
>>>  -Nathan
>>  I was only able to test on amd64 and i386. And that took 37 exp-runs
>>  over a month.
>>
>>  See commit and CHANGES for more discussion on why not i386 on <10:
>>
>>  http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=327697
>
> OK. If I set this on powerpc anyway, will it turn on? I'm happy to
> (slowly) test it there.

AFAIU, it's pointless to use stack protector on ppc because stack smashing
attacks are just impossible here.

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Regards,
Konstantin