Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Buffer overflow protection" in English language version.
The Gentoo hardened GCC switches on the stack protector by default unless explicitly requested not to.
It has made its way into GCC 4.9
gcc comes with the ProPolice stack protection extension, which is enabled by default.
clang comes with stack protection enabled by default, equivalent to the -fstack-protector-strong option on other systems.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)