Re: GCC reporting piped input as a security feature (was: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > To avoid false positives if this test is used, we might want to add a 
  > rule to the GNU Coding Standards (probably in the "Makefile Conventions" 
  > section) that code generated with other utilities MUST always be 
  > materialized in the filesystem and MUST NOT be piped into the compiler.

That sounds like a good idea.  I expect this will not interfere with
anything useful.  What do others thing of this question?

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