From fb5ad925884a5740da2f9f525570966d11f61054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xi Ruoyao Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:51:22 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] gcc: document that libssp is normally unused We are enabling default SSP now, so if someone runs "ldd /usr/bin/true" and see libssp is not used he/she may be puzzled. --- chapter08/gcc.xml | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/chapter08/gcc.xml b/chapter08/gcc.xml index 7a06cf461..65f502dde 100644 --- a/chapter08/gcc.xml +++ b/chapter08/gcc.xml @@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ mv -v /usr/lib/*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib libssp Contains routines supporting GCC's stack-smashing protection - functionality + functionality. Normally it's unused because glibc also provides + those routines libssp