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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:41:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/30] stack-protector: test compiler capability in
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>     config STACKPROTECTOR_FLAGS
>         string
>         default "-fstack-protector-strong" if CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
>         default "-fstack-protector" if CC_STACKPROTECTOR
>         default "-fno-stack-protector" if CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
>         default ""
>
> which is really simple and straightforward. In the presense of
> multiple defaults, the first is picked, so this _automatically_ does
> that whole priority ordering.

Ah, perfect! Yes, this is a much better solution.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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