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Re: NetBSD has SSP in libc


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:35:15PM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 01/23/2016 02:52 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> >NetBSD has SSP included in libc:
> >
> >http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/ssp/?only_with_tag=MAIN
> >
> >gcc/configure does not know about this. The attached patch (against
> >SVN checkout from today) fixes this.
> >
> >I've previously reported this as
> >https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68380 but was told that
> >patches should be sent here.
> Thanks.
> 
> If I understand the history SSP first appeared in NetBSD 4.0, so this code
> really ought to be conditional on NetBSD 4.0 or newer to be strictly
> correct.
> 
> Unfortunately we don't have much interaction with NetBSD anymore -- so we
> have no clue if supporting building on anything before NetBSD 4.0 is even
> reasonable or feasible anymore.

The only supported release branches are NetBSD-6.x and NetBSD-7.x.

NetBSD-4.x was desupported when NetBSD 6.x came out, in 2012:
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/end_of_life_for_4

 Thomas


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