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author | Bill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com> | 2008-11-26 19:07:40 +0000 |
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committer | Bill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com> | 2008-11-26 19:07:40 +0000 |
commit | fbaa7edf9356665cfd85a3c012c4035acbc9ba30 (patch) | |
tree | e330cecd74e62956d8cea570aafb4da4eb0efe4e | |
parent | da278753c48f637272fdf945a63c0f303b586fa8 (diff) |
Update to explain how ssp and sspreq attributes override each other.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@60112 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html index aa9d42fb06..e2914c0f29 100644 --- a/docs/LangRef.html +++ b/docs/LangRef.html @@ -992,16 +992,25 @@ throws the same exception) when called with the same set of arguments and global state.</dd> <dt><tt><a name="ssp">ssp</a></tt></dt> -<dd>This attribute indicates that the function should emit a stack smashing +<dd><p>This attribute indicates that the function should emit a stack smashing protector. It is in the form of a "canary"—a random value placed on the stack before the local variables that's checked upon return from the function to see if it has been overwritten. A heuristic is used to determine if a function -needs stack protectors or not.</dd> +needs stack protectors or not.</p> -<dt><tt>ssp-req</tt></dt> -<dd>This attribute indicates that the function should <em>always</em> emit a +<p>If a function that has an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute is inlined into a function +that doesn't have an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute, then the resulting function will +have an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute.</p></dd> + +<dt><tt>sspreq</tt></dt> +<dd><p>This attribute indicates that the function should <em>always</em> emit a stack smashing protector. This overrides the <tt><a href="#ssp">ssp</a></tt> -function attribute.</dd> +function attribute.</p> + +<p>If a function that has an <tt>sspreq</tt> attribute is inlined into a +function that doesn't have an <tt>sspreq</tt> attribute or which has +an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute, then the resulting function will have +an <tt>sspreq</tt> attribute.</p></dd> </dl> </div> |