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Re: 3.2 PATCH: Ada parallel bootstrap fixes
- From: Simon Wright <simon at pushface dot org>
- To: bosch at gnat dot com
- Cc: fw at deneb dot enyo dot de, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:52:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: 3.2 PATCH: Ada parallel bootstrap fixes
- References: <939CD9DA-6A6B-11D6-AF14-00039344BF4A@gnat.com>
> From: Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com>
> This I don't understand. The GNAT run time is calling functions in
> the C library. If you say security problems do not exist in the C
> library, why are they present in Ada?
The only (well, main) reason people are aware of the problem is
because the libc people were sufficiently concerned about the
offending functions that they put in special "deprecation" messages
which are issued (by ld, I think) when a program links against them.
So presumably C people don't use the functions.