maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 264497] -fcf-protection causes 'illegal hardware instruction' on Geode

From: <bugzilla-noreply_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:11:04 UTC
Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-toolchain (Nobody)
<toolchain@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback:
Bug 264497: -fcf-protection causes 'illegal hardware instruction' on Geode
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264497



--- Comment #2 from Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> ---
Had an issue with Python ctype tests segfaulting [1] a few weeks ago, isolated
to libffi issue [2][3]. 

See also: 

Missing ENDBR on Linux/x86 ... requires ENDBR32/ENDBR64 at indirect branch 
targets: https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/474 

Perhaps relevent

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/92752
[2] https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/710
[3] https://github.com/libffi/libffi/pull/711