fstack protector

Kris Kennaway kris at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 19 14:10:21 PDT 2003


On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:52:34AM -0400, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it was to do with module loading.  I think the XFree86 module
> > build ignored CFLAGS, so the modules were not built with
> > -fstack-protector.
> 
> The modules use MODCFLAGS and MODULE_CFLAGS instead. I'm familair with
> the XFree86 loader, and would be willing to work with someone familiar with
> the -fstack-protector part to fix this.

Hmm, OK.  From the point of view of the FreeBSD port this is a POLA
violation..it should just use CFLAGS like everything else is supposed
to.

Kris
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