nickc reported a new issue against the project: `releng` that you are following: `` I would like to enable binary annotations for files compiled by gcc. This will allow extra information to be stored in these files, such as which hardening options were used, the stack size requirements, potential ABI conflicts and so on.

In order to do this I propose patching the redhat-rpm-config rpm to enable the use of the annobin plugin. This plugin will add the extra information to the binary files. Some example scripts in the annobin package demonstrate how this information might be used.

This change has several possible consequences for release engineering:

* It might break the building of any package that uses gcc. [I have tried to test building various packages locally, and these have all succeeded, but I do not have the equivalent of an entire Fedora build system].

* The size of gcc built binaries will increase. Not by a huge amount I hope, since the annotation format is designed to be compact, but it could still be a factor. Note the information is stored in an unallocated section in the binary, so it will not affect the size of the executable in memory, only on disk.

* if the annotations work it should allow releng the opportunity to add extra checks for ABI incompatibilities and hardening problems. ``

To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7069