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PATCH for Re: Stale link to StackGuard in extensions page
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: "E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:36:25 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: PATCH for Re: Stale link to StackGuard in extensions page
- References: <41656845.3000507@evcohs.com>
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, E. Weddington wrote:
FWIW, In the extensions page,
<http://gcc.gnu.org/extensions.html>,
the link to StackGuard is stale.
Addressed thusly, by removing the link.
On the Immunix site (and Google) a current version of StackGuard isn't
easy to find, and the Immunix thing looks a bit too commercial considering
RMS' requests not to provide link to non-free software sites.
Gerald
Index: extensions.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/extensions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -3 -p -r1.32 extensions.html
--- extensions.html 29 Sep 2003 19:37:34 -0000 1.32
+++ extensions.html 21 Oct 2004 12:28:50 -0000
@@ -49,12 +49,6 @@ compiled without bounds checking.</p>
<a href="ftp://ftp.newspapersystems.com/pub/binaries/boundschecking/example.html#Example";>
compilation and execution</a> of an example program.</p>
-<h2>
-<a href="http://www.immunix.org/stackguard.html";>StackGuard</a></h2>
-
-<p>StackGuard emits programs hardened against "stack smashing" attacks on
-x86 GNU/Linux. StackGuard 2.0 is based on egcs-1.1.2 (gcc version 2.91.66);
-StackGuard 1.21 is based on gcc-2.7.2.</p>
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