From: cr88192@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/26/2025 2:48 PM, BGB wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Though one possibility could be to increase the strength of stack-   
   > canaries by flagging them with relocs, allowing the program loader to   
   > itself re-jitter the canary values without needing a recompile.   
   >   
   >   
   > Well, and GCC compiled code has an additional weakness here in that GCC   
   > doesn't normally use stack canaries (they seemingly do very little to   
   > give binaries any kind of resistance against buffer overflow exploits).   
   >   
      
   Groan... Self clarification:   
   GCC does have an option to enable stack canaries, but it is opt-in   
   rather than enabled by default (say, in MSVC one would need to opt-out   
   instead).   
      
   What I wrote could be misinterpreted, I meant GCC's default settings do   
   little in the case of protecting against stack overflows (and was *not*   
   implying that canaries were ineffective).   
      
   But, alas, now people will probably be misinterpreting what I wrote and   
   now I will need to deal with this, grr...   
      
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