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Slightly OT (Re: Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3)k
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> skribis:
> /That/ said, there's actually three levels of ssp now, with this one the
> lowest level, dropping performance very little while focusing protection
> on the functions that are easiest to abuse AND to protect.

I tend to keep out-of-the-box gcc on the side for development, though
that’s for a few perhaps peculiar reasons. (Partly to keep alive the
remote possibility of my trying out Gnat, which Gentoo doesn’t really
support. You need a running and perhaps recent Gnat to build Gnat.)

I consider SSP a good thing. It is an attempt to make up for C/C++
programming, which is a bad thing.