gcc-4.1.1: ssp (stack smashing protector) for aix ?

Michael Haubenwallner michael.haubenwallner@salomon.at
Wed Jul 4 06:55:00 GMT 2007


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/



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