Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2021 11:39:11 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] string: uninline memcpy_and_pad |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 11:34:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Kees - once you have gotten all compilers fixed and everybody using > them, you can send a patch to make it inline again.
Fair enough. I've got a pile of changes underway that do touch a bunch of these things, so yeah, we'll have pretty wide coverage soon enough.
> I estimate that is in about ten years or so.
Heh. Well, luckily, both GCC and Clang have been pretty responsive about getting legitimate bugs[1] fixed, so I'm gonna aim for "less than 10 years". ;)
-Kees
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101419
-- Kees Cook
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