MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 19, 2008 17:00 UTC (Wed) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: MinGW and why Linux users should care by cde
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care

This is correct to some extent. Currently we build without -fstack-protector because that feature doesn't work in the version of GCC we are using.

Longer term, we want to add / fix all of these features in GCC and the toolchain, stack protection, NX, address space randomization, etc.

Using Visual Studio isn't an option for Fedora because of its non-free status, no matter how good the security features may be.

(I am "Richard" in the article).