On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 02:20 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > fre, 14.01.2005 kl. 23.30 skrev Bill Nottingham: > > A Fedora Core 4 proto-schedule is available at: > > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ > > > > Generally, it's 3 4-week test releases, with a release in early/mid May. > > > > So, what's planned for Fedora Core 4? Here's what we're looking > > at from the Red Hat side of things: > > > > - GCC 4, if it's ready > > > > We're not planning on holding for it, but if it's out in a > > reasonable time, sure. Failing that, we're looking at making > > more of the FORTIFY_SOURCE and other gcc & glibc security extensions > > integrated, if at all possible. > > > > How will this affect backwards compat? FORTIFY_SOURCE is compatible; what it does do is make the binary depend on glibc 2.3.4 or higher, but well you run that risk anyway; apps generally depend on the glibc (or higher) they were compiled against (and for those of you who don't know what FORTIFY_SOURCE is; it is a gcc thing that detects a specific class of buffer overflows at runtime and prevents them)
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