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diff --git a/2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info/2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info.en.txt b/2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info/2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ca9522 --- /dev/null +++ b/2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info/2010-10-27-hardened-gcc4-info.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Title: Info about GCC on Hardened profiles +Author: Magnus Granberg <zorry@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2010-10-27 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: <sys-devel/gcc-4.4 +Display-If-Profile: hardened/linux + +GCC 4.4.4-r2 is now stable in the hardened profiles (on x86 and +amd64 as of 2010-10-24, other architectures will follow later). +Starting from this version, SSP support is enabled by default for the +architectures it is supported on (namely x86, amd64, ppc, ppc64 and +arm). Previously, GCC 4.3.4 had SSP support but it was not enabled +by default. + +Older GCC versions in the hardened profiles, such as the +GCC 3.x series will be obsoleted, problems arising on those versions, +but not applying to GCC 4.4.4-r2 will not be fixed, so please update +to the new version. |