[AWS] buffer overflow?

[Ted Dennison]

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

>Ted Dennison wrote:
>
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>
>>My (admittidly ancient) Gnat user guide for version 3.13p
>>contains the following:
>>
>>    For most operating systems, |gcc| does not perform stack overflow
>>    checking by default.
>>
>>If that has been changed, I'm quite glad to hear it.
>>    
>>
>
>I think I managed to enable it either on Digital Unix or on
>Linux, but it required some trick, which I can't remember at
>the moment, and I also have a vague memory of it not being
>completely perfect.
>  
>
Well, my ancient guide continues:

    To activate stack checking, compile all units with the gcc option
    |-fstack-check|.

Of course anyone with Gnat should look in their own User Guide (perhaps 
in the Run-time Checks and Stack Overflow Checking sections)

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