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Re: Policy for posting security bug reports?


* Mike Frysinger:

> gcc & binutils pretty explicitly don't have security paths.

The generated object code could have security vulnerabilities not
present in the source code, or its properties could make security
hardening features ineffective.

(And GCC includes fairly substantial libraries for Ada, Go and Java.)


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