From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 16 16:59:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755CE37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAH10gl58527; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:00:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Silbersack , KOJIMA Hajime , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: Propolice for gcc-2.95.2 Message-ID: <20001116170042.A58481@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <200011162332.QAA69958@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011162332.QAA69958@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:32:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message