Hi Sean, > So it seems to be "distro" related....hmmm... Well, compiler version related (but afaik only Red Hat ships the gcc-2.96 compiler). On my Red Hat 7.3 system the error also is reproducible. You should probably report a bug at http://bugzilla.redhat.com . By the way, if you need stack protection you could build a gcc-2.95-3 with the IBM propolice patch (this is probably easier for RH 7.x releases than moving to gcc-3.2.2). I tried porting the propolice patch to RH's gcc-2.96 but failed until now. I did however create a propoliced gcc-2.95.3 rpm and am now in the process of rebuilding all packages for my firewall. If you are interested I could send you the spec file and the patch I created (essentially the patches available at http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/ , but with protector.c and protector.h added to the main patch file). If you are interested in even more overflow protection, I also derived a PaX patch for use with RH's kernel-2.4.20-18.7. You can find this patch at http://home.hetnet.nl/~ottolander/pax/pax.html . Bye, Leonard. -- How clean is a war when you shoot around nukelar waste? Stop the use of depleted uranium ammo! End all weapons of mass destruction. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
