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gcc 4 check is broken (luckily!)
From: Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:18:19 +0400
Hi, I am getting: checking whether the compiler is gcc 4 or greater... yes and -fno-strict-aliasing on gcc invocations on my system with gcc 3.4.5. This is great, because gcc 3.4.5 supports the strict aliasing optimizations as well, which would be problematic given Nmap's code. The bug is here: if test 4 -ge $nmap_gcc_major_version; then basically, the test is reversed, but due to the "or equal" it works right for gcc 4 (but will break for gcc 5). My suggested fix is: if test $nmap_gcc_major_version -ge 3; then ...or perhaps the minor version will need to be checked as well, depending on when the -fno-strict-aliasing option was introduced (I did not check, I am merely reporting a bug now). Of course, the comments and the message will need to be adjusted as well. The impact of the bug is that builds with gcc 2.x will fail (whereas 2.95.x are fairly reasonable versions of gcc). Alexander _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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