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Re: [PATCH, MPX runtime 1/2] Integrate MPX runtime library


On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Ilya Enkovich wrote:

> > If it's intended only as the latter - and this is documented - then you 
> > don't have the libgcc-like requirements, and there's no point in having 
> > multiple libraries.  If it's intended for both, that points the way to 
> > separate libraries (where the debugging-tool library would be used in that 
> > use case, but the crash-reporter-interception case would expect programs 
> > to have been linked with only the minimal library).
> 
> Would it be enough to mention implicit link and resulting pthread 
> dependency in -fcheck-pointer-bounds description in invoke.texi?

Well, that and say explicitly that it's intended as a debugging tool 
rather than for general hardening.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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