Re: HEADS-UP: Stack Smash Protection enabled by default for amd64 and i386

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost said:
> Just to insert some hard numbers into this thread.

Just had a look at the functions in libc/ssp for unrelated
reasons.
Some duplicate work for the check, and str(n)cat are replaced
by simple C implementations while the unchecked versions
are machine optimized.
So what you get will likely depend a lot on the workload.

best regards
Matthias



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