F22 System Wide Change: Harden all packages with position-independent code

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Mon Jan 12 21:50:07 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:37:42PM -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Does this proposal apply to native non-C/C++ programs?
> 
> As written, it seems to intend so.  In practice, it would probably
> apply or not depending on whether the non-C/C++ programs’ builds are
> affected by _hardened_build.

I did not think of these programs, so I agree here. Addressing them is
something for a future change proposal IMHO, unless there is enough time
to to do for F22.

> Ideally, I think this should apply to all languages that don’t ensure
> memory safety, and not to those that do ensure it.¹  (There is also
> the edge case of safe languages with explicit “unsafe” blocks, I guess
> these should default into the “safe” category?) Mirek

Is there a list of languages that need to be considered? There is afaik
golang, ocaml and ghc that need to be considered.

Regards
Till


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