On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Please find attached the hopefully final changes for the compile flags.
> It's a patch against redhat-rpm-config-8.0.36-1.src.rpm. The changes are:
>
> ~ enable stack protector with minimal size 4 (default is 8, too high
> IMO). Vlad ran some tests on SPEC. SPEC is highly CPU intensive,
> unlike 90%+ of the distribution. Even in those tests the performance
> decrease was below 1%, probably even in the noise. Especially the
> decrease of the minimum size to 4 made no measurable impact.
>
> ~ remove the -fsigned-char flag for ppc. glibc has not been compiled
> with the flag anyway, so if anything changes, we eliminate some bugs.
> The only theoretical issue would be if a library we ship uses CHAR_MAX
> in an interface. I personally haven't seen this for good reasons.
> The only interface I know is localeconv(3) in glibc and this interface
> is now corrected.
>
> ~ minor fix for SPARC
