Back in 2014, -fstack-protector was reported not to work on aarch64, so fe881ae086ec disabled it on that target. OS-wise, its use is currently limited to just Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. Looking at the situation today, it seems that whatever issue was affecting aarch64 a decade ago has been resolved; moreover, macOS can also use the feature these days. I haven't checked any of the other BSDs, but since the feature works on FreeBSD it's pretty safe to the assume that they can use it too. If we get reports that it's not the case, we can always further restrict its usage accordingly. Best viewed with 'git show -w'. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Test pipeline: https://gitlab.com/abologna/libvirt/-/pipelines/1157984478 Changes from [v1]: * drop alpha-specific exception. [v1] https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@lists.libvirt.org/thread/R5... meson.build | 27 +++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 611cc582c0..e1c70fce92 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -442,22 +442,17 @@ supported_cc_flags = [] if get_option('warning_level') == '2' supported_cc_flags = cc.get_supported_arguments(cc_flags) - # on aarch64 error: -fstack-protector not supported for this target - if host_machine.cpu_family() != 'aarch64' - if host_machine.system() in [ 'linux', 'freebsd', 'windows' ] - # we prefer -fstack-protector-strong but fallback to -fstack-protector-all - fstack_cflags = cc.first_supported_argument([ - '-fstack-protector-strong', - '-fstack-protector-all', - ]) - supported_cc_flags += fstack_cflags - - # When building with mingw using -fstack-protector requires libssp library - # which is included by using -fstack-protector with linker. - if fstack_cflags.length() == 1 and host_machine.system() == 'windows' - add_project_link_arguments(fstack_cflags, language: 'c') - endif - endif + # we prefer -fstack-protector-strong but fallback to -fstack-protector-all + fstack_cflags = cc.first_supported_argument([ + '-fstack-protector-strong', + '-fstack-protector-all', + ]) + supported_cc_flags += fstack_cflags + + # When building with mingw using -fstack-protector requires libssp library + # which is included by using -fstack-protector with linker. + if fstack_cflags.length() == 1 and host_machine.system() == 'windows' + add_project_link_arguments(fstack_cflags, language: 'c') endif if supported_cc_flags.contains('-Wlogical-op') -- 2.43.0