fortify-headers 2.3.1
Mon 08 July 2024 — download

Thanks to the work of chereskata to update fortify-headers in Alpine Linux, two C++-related compatibility issues have been found and fixed, and some tests added to prove it. The first one was related to the usage of the restrict keyword resulting in a function prototype mismatch; while the second is about void pointers arithmetics.

I do hope this will be the last yet-another-bugfix-version to be released before landing in Alpine Linux. Every time someone finds a critical issue preventing this from happening, it makes me feel like a terrible software engineer, and anxious about how sin would feel about naming me caretaker of his great project. Of course, this shouldn't stop you from looking for, finding and reporting as many bugs as possible, I just hope there will be no critical ones slipping thought the cracks this time!

You can download this fresh release here.

Changelog

  • Added tests for C++ compilation
  • Fixed some pointer-arithmetic warnings
  • Fixed C++ compatibility