-fno-stack-protector not ensuring binary compatibility

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:

> I'm trying to compile a binary on Fedora 7
> and have it work on older systems:

Unfortunately, while glibc does implement backward compatibility, it
does not implement forward compatibility.  If you want to ensure that
your binary will run on an older system, you need to build it on an
older system (or using a cross-compiler to the older system).

Ian