SSP on PPC

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Justin,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:40:58PM -0400, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>  With a recent upgrade of -CURRENT on my FreeBSD/ppc machine it appears that 
>  the stack smash protection breaks exception handling.  This was tested with 
>  C++ and Objective-C, and both segfault at the same place in libgcc_s.so.1, 
>  but it is fixed by recompiling world with WITHOUT_SSP=YES.  Perhaps this 
>  should be the default for now?

Thanks for reporting this.  I've looked into GCC Bugzilla to see if it
is a known bug or if it has been resolved in newer versions of GCC,
but no luck.

I think it would be better to disable SSP for FreeBSD/ppc indeed.  I
will manage to get this committed.

Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
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