does -fstack-protector work for gcc 4.1 on Darwin 8?

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On 4 Aug 2005, Richard Henderson whispered secretively:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:39:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>     Do you think I should be able to build gcc itself with the
>> -fstack-protector flag and what is the most appropriate way to
>> achieve that (ie brute force using a CFLAG or some configure
>> flag)?
> 
> Considering that I don't think that self-building with 
> -fstack-protector will ever be common, I don't think we
> ought to spend too many brain cells on this.

It was always possible with the SSP implementation, FWIW.
(This was useful to get a libgcc compiled with -fstack-protector,
although it's true that changing the TCFLAGS in gcc/Makefile
also lets you do that.)

> The only way to bootstrap with -fstack-protector without
> existing support in libc is to use a top-level bootstrap.

... which is reasonable, I think. (This was also true of
SSP.)

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