Dave Aitel wrote:
>Does anyone on this list have any connection with the GCC developers?
>When is StackGuard and -blip going to get integrated into the standard
>distribution?! What are we waiting on? Mono?
>
We are working towards that. Having a feature accepted into GCC requires
some key things:
* that the patch is current with GCC, which is a fast-moving target
* that the patch is portable across architectures
We are essentially current with GCC, in that we have an in-the-lab
version of StackGuard/GCC 3.2. We are working on an IA64 port of
StackGuard, so that we can credibly claim that StackGuard is portable by
porting it.
If anyone out there has particular expertise on some other CPU, and
wants to help, we'll take it.
When we get all that done, there's the small matter of persuading the
GCC core maintainers to accept StackGuard, because they don't have to if
they don't want to.
Crispin
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