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)