Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/31/2007 18:15:07
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:02:34AM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Elad Efrat wrote:
>
> > also, where is the consensus of the class of programs to protect with
> > USE_FORT taken from? and what's the reason for it?
>
> While talking about this change, it is too late to change the option
> name to "USE_FORTIFY"? I can't see any reason for using the abbreviated
> "FORT" in the name.
It's long and ungainly and there's something else called FORTIFY (worse,
I suspect it's trademarked). But USE_FORTIFY_SOURCE is even worse.
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