[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] toolchain: -fstack-protector-strong can be back-ported

[yann.morin at orange.com]

From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin at orange.com>

Currently, use of -fstack-protector-strong is only available for gcc
starting with 4.9, on the assumption that it appeared with that version.

Although this is true, it happens that quite a few vendors will have
back-ported -fstack-protector-strong to older gcc versions (at least 4.8
seen in the wild).

Remove the guard against gcc>=4.9, and expand the help text.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin at orange.com>
Cc: Matt Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>

---
Notes:

We could have changed the guard to something like:
    depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL

However, the latest gcc we support in the internal toolchain *is*
gcc-4.9, so the condition would have always been true. Hence, we just
drop the condition.
---
 Config.in | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 757ad1ca40..d5a0460f98 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -746,14 +746,14 @@ config BR2_SSP_REGULAR
 
 config BR2_SSP_STRONG
 	bool "-fstack-protector-strong"
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
 	help
 	  Like -fstack-protector but includes additional functions to be
 	  protected - those that have local array definitions, or have
 	  references to local frame addresses.
 
-comment "Stack Smashing Protection strong needs a toolchain w/ gcc >= 4.9"
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9
+	  -fstack-protector-strong officially appeared in gcc 4.9, but
+	  some vendors have backported -fstack-protector-strong to older
+	  versions of gcc.
 
 config BR2_SSP_ALL
 	bool "-fstack-protector-all"
-- 
2.17.1


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