[PATCH] D55428: [Docs] Expand -fstack-protector and -fstack-protector-all info

[Carey Williams via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

carwil updated this revision to Diff 177239.
carwil added a comment.

Edited Options.td directly, rather than the generated docs file.


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Files:
  include/clang/Driver/Options.td


Index: include/clang/Driver/Options.td
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--- include/clang/Driver/Options.td
+++ include/clang/Driver/Options.td
@@ -1631,9 +1631,14 @@
 def fstack_protector_all : Flag<["-"], "fstack-protector-all">, Group<f_Group>,
   HelpText<"Force the usage of stack protectors for all functions">;
 def fstack_protector_strong : Flag<["-"], "fstack-protector-strong">, Group<f_Group>,
-  HelpText<"Use a strong heuristic to apply stack protectors to functions">;
+  HelpText<"Uses a stronger heuristic to apply stack protectors to functions "
+           "that include arrays of any size (and any type), "
+           "as well as any calls to alloca or the taking of an address from a local variable">;
 def fstack_protector : Flag<["-"], "fstack-protector">, Group<f_Group>,
-  HelpText<"Enable stack protectors for functions potentially vulnerable to stack smashing">;
+  HelpText<"Enable stack protectors for some functions potentially vulnerable to stack smashing. "
+           "Namely those containing a char (or 8bit integer) array or constant sized calls to "
+           "alloca, which are of greater size than ssp-buffer-size (default: 8 bytes). "
+           "All variable sized calls to alloca are considered vulnerable">;
 def fstandalone_debug : Flag<["-"], "fstandalone-debug">, Group<f_Group>, Flags<[CoreOption]>,
   HelpText<"Emit full debug info for all types used by the program">;
 def fno_standalone_debug : Flag<["-"], "fno-standalone-debug">, Group<f_Group>, Flags<[CoreOption]>,


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