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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for OpenBSD
On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:41, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 18/10/06 8:25 am, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> We have that already in arch/x86/Rules.mk. If that was working, I doubt
> >> Christoph would have gone to the trouble of hacking up the SSP goop.
> >
> > I did this work in August. There wasn't anything SSP-related there. So
> > without SSP support, I got into linking errors.
> > Now that the work is done, why shouldn't it go in?
>
> Uncertainty about new compiler-assisted stuff that I don't believe will
> catch any bugs in Xen. Linux guys have clearly reached the same conclusion.
> Given we even turn off frame pointers in non-debug builds, is it likely
> we'll take this? :-)
Linux guys also came to the conclusion, kernel debuggers are useless
to catch any bugs. On the other side, how many use the kgdb patch?
So, even if my SSP patch won't go in, how many will use it?
Hmm... now I feel, this ends up in a debate on principles. :-)
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