Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:00:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, KOJIMA Hajime <kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: Propolice for gcc-2.95.2 Message-ID: <20001116170042.A58481@citusc17.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200011162332.QAA69958@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:32:48PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011152309070.61473-100000@achilles.silby.com> <200011162332.QAA69958@harmony.village.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:32:48PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > I'd worry about putting this into the base system. First, I'd worry > about the performance impact of all this extra code in the base > system. Second, I'd worry about bitrot when we move to new versions > of the source. Performance shouldn't be an issue unless you enable the extra bounds checking at compile time. Bitrot is certainly an issue, though. We should at least allow world to be built using a propolice-enabled compiler - though that should be fairly automatic just using CC and CFLAGS. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjoUgzoACgkQWry0BWjoQKUOZgCg1a/m1kjZlh3p+ElJU0oF2EXn 6h4AoNj6VxOjHPjV+4qpr5yhjcxeTR6j =lDTp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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