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Re: gcc-4.1.1: ssp (stack smashing protector) for aix ?
- From: Michael Haubenwallner <michael dot haubenwallner at salomon dot at>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:58:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: gcc-4.1.1: ssp (stack smashing protector) for aix ?
- References: <1183042297.13857.19.camel@sapc154> <200707032142.l63LgYQ33674@makai.watson.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 17:42 -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> is there a specific reason why libssp is not built for powerpc-aix (it
> is disabled in toplevel configure script) ?
>
> Because passing '-fstack-protector' for compile and link seems to work,
> except libssp_nonshared (and libssp) is missing during linking.
>
> After hacking configure to allow libssp for powerpc-aix, it was built
> successfully and also seems to work with simple test program on
> powerpc-aix5.3.
>
> The implementation does not conform to the AIX ABI and causes some
> programs to fail.
Ok, thank you!
/haubi/