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Date:   Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:00:02 -0500
From:   Kevin Easton <kevin@...rana.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
        "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:05:12AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 02/10/2018 12:55 AM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> > How many compilers don't support -fno-stack-protector by the way?
> > 
> > 	config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
> > 		bool
> > 		option shell="$CC -Werror -fstack-protector-strong -c -x c /dev/null"
> > 	
> > 	config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
> > 		bool
> > 		option shell="$CC -Werror -fstack-protector -c -x c /dev/null"
> > 	
> > 	config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
> > 		bool
> > 		default y
> > 		option shell="$CC -Werror -fno-stack-protector -c -x c /dev/null"
> 
> I ran:
> gcc -Werror -fno-stack-protector -c -x c /dev/null
> 
> It worked (gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5) but it did leave a null.o file for me.
> Might need to add that to 'make clean' or just rm it immediately.

gcc -Werror -fno-stack-protector -c -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null

seems to DTRT without leaving anything behind.

    - Kevin