From ef9975fa0aeabd9f18d1ec5cdbd9b3775fd90880 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:24:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE is no more a todo. --- Porting/todo.pod | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Porting/todo.pod b/Porting/todo.pod index 771cbce..448ef59 100644 --- a/Porting/todo.pod +++ b/Porting/todo.pod @@ -555,14 +555,6 @@ ever creep back to libperl.a. Note, of course, that this will only tell whether B platform is using those naughty interfaces. -=head2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 - -Recent glibcs support C<-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2> which gives -protection against various kinds of buffer overflow problems. -It should probably be used for compiling Perl whenever available, -Configure and/or hints files should be adjusted to probe for the -availability of these feature and enable it as appropriate. - =head2 Arenas for GPs? For MAGIC? C and C are both currently allocated by C. -- 1.8.3.1