> Of course, it would be even better if the distro also made it easy for
> developers to see the bad memcpy's, so that they can fix their apps. Even if
> they'd _work_ fine (due to the memcpy just doing the RightThing(tm)), fixing
> the app is also the right thing to do, and this would just make Fedora and
> glibc look good.
>
This is probably already done: using -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 enable use of
__builtin___memcpy_chk()
(In reply to comment #101)
> Of course, it would be even better if the distro also made it easy for
> developers to see the bad memcpy's, so that they can fix their apps. Even if
> they'd _work_ fine (due to the memcpy just doing the RightThing(tm)), fixing
> the app is also the right thing to do, and this would just make Fedora and
> glibc look good.
>
This is probably already done: using -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 enable use of __memcpy_ chk()
__builtin_