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#3 Re: Adding stack smashing protection to GCC v3.4 Posted by Anonymous (193.237.xx.xx) on Fri 14 Jan 2005 at 21:12 Thanks Steve, I think this should have gone in a long time ago, and should be on by default. Debian runs the risk of being overtaken by Microsoft, which does enable such protection (if only in key applications) in XP SP2. Of course the standard MS C++ compiler has offered it as an option for years, but no one at Microsoft thought to switch it on - sigh - problem of daft defaults. We should learn from MS experience, those who know what they are doing can always switch it off, but we should select defaults for people who don't understand and want things to "just work".

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