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mingw: enable stack smashing protector
As suggested privately to Brendan Forster by some unnamed person (suggestion for the future: use the public mailing list, or even the public GitHub issue tracker, that is a much better place to offer such suggestions), we should make use of gcc's stack smashing protector that helps detect stack buffer overruns early. Rather than using -fstack-protector, we use -fstack-protector-strong because it strikes a better balance between how much code is affected and the performance impact. In a local test (time git log --grep=is -p), best of 5 timings went from 23.009s to 22.997s (i.e. the performance impact was *well* lost in the noise). This fixes #501 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware
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endif
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CC = gcc
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COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY
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COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \
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-fstack-protector-strong
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EXTLIBS += -lntdll
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INSTALL = /bin/install
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NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER = YesPlease

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