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...H_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE([-ftrapv]) + OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE([-fPIC]) + OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE([-fPIE]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-pie]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-Wl,-z,relro]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-Wl,-z,now]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-Wl,-z,noexecstack]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([gcc version]) GCC_VER=`$CC -v 2>&1 | $AWK '/gcc version /{print $3}'` case $GCC_VER in -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1772 Summary: There are some strict-aliasing warnings during the compillation Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 5.5p1 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Build system AssignedTo:

...o-strict-aliasing]) OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE([-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2]) + OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE([-fPIC]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-pie]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-Wa,--noexecstack]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-Wl,-z,relro]) + OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK([-Wl,-z,now]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([gcc version]) GCC_VER=`$CC -v 2>&1 | $AWK '/gcc version /{print $3}'` case $GCC_VER in -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement...

...elow is what seems to be happening within "vmware-modconfig" and/or internal programs/scripts : Code: ## ## My visualization of crash(SIGSEGV) case when compiler used to build kernel is clang-*/LLVM : ## ## == Likely a dereferencing of NULL similar to the below case == ## const char *gcc_ver = strstr("Linux version 4.16.0 (exp at exp) (clang version 5.0.0-3 (tags/RELEASE_500/final)) #4 SMP Thu Apr 5 02:12:22 PDT 2018", "gcc..."); if (strcmp(gcc_ver, "gcc...") == 0) { // Here, there's no check on gcc_ver to be // n...