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		foobar_ on June 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tiny C Compiler Wow did not know that. Is there a distribution that offers bounds checking for all linux software ? I wonder how slow a typical LAMP stack will be. My guess is no more than 5x. I think thats an acceptable tradeoff. I'm guessing there's a way to add global compiler flags in source distributions like Arch linux / BSD.

shakna on June 24, 2020 [–]

Gentoo has a few ways to set up global C flags [0], because the default is to compile all your software yourself.

(Arch isn't actually a source distro, it's binary, though rolling release. Gentoo is, however).

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag

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