From: Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 15:40:34 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Mention GCC 10 attribute access.
X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.32~310
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=901ac8431c9c031673f965e30b0d4a24ec3b8370;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git

Mention GCC 10 attribute access.

Reviewed-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 10473bd514d..b7c229b32a6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Major new features:
   toolchains.  It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
   this option.
 
+* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
+  several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute.  This
+  should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been