Re: [LinuxBIOS] help from ubuntu and FC6 experts

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > Does LinuxBIOS build with -ffreestanding?  If you don't, that's
> > > a bug for you too -- if you do, and that option does not disable
> > > SSP, that's a GCC bug -- either a mainline GCC one, or one in
> > > FC6, depending on how they enable it by default.
> >
> > We do not (at least as far as I can tell)
>
> Bug!  Bug!  ;-)
> > and I just tested and -ffreestanding did not help.
>
> I'll go see what the larger GCC community thinks about this --
> I'd say it's a bug.  Well I'll go check tomorrow :-)

The outcome is that -ffreestanding shouldn't disable SSP,
as it can be useful for freestanding systems too -- they'll
just have to provide the necessary library functions
themselves.

Segher