Re: Fwd: [Bug 19] Review request: blcr - Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart for Linux

From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2008 - 11:55:16 PST

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    On Monday 22 December 2008, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
    > With all due respect to the person who raised the question: a link failure
    > is NOT any indication that such buffer overflows are present.  It is an
    > indication of a toolchain that creates implicit dependencies and broke
    > linking of many shared libraries and dynamically loadable modules other
    > than BLCR.
    >
    > Neal, have you or anyone else tried removing -fno-stack-protector to see if
    > things work correctly on Fedora 9 or 10?  Its possible they might.
    >
    > If somebody can point to the proper way to resolve the linkage problem,
    > without also breaking things for platforms w/o stack-protector support in
    > gcc, then I'd be happy to apply the fix.
    >
    
    I could try it, but how does it break?  I'm asking because if it only breaks 
    on some arch, does it break in compile?  Or only runtime?  If the former, I 
    could easily try to build it using the compile farms already available.  If it 
    only breaks in testing, I'd have to do some more.
    

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