8.0.37:
    
    On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
    
    > Please find attached the hopefully final changes for the compile flags.
    >  It's a patch against redhat-rpm-config-8.0.36-1.src.rpm.  The changes are:
    >
    > ~ enable stack protector with minimal size 4 (default is 8, too high
    >   IMO).  Vlad ran some tests on SPEC.  SPEC is highly CPU intensive,
    >   unlike 90%+ of the distribution.  Even in those tests the performance
    >   decrease was below 1%, probably even in the noise.  Especially the
    >   decrease of the minimum size to 4 made no measurable impact.
    >
    > ~ remove the -fsigned-char flag for ppc.  glibc has not been compiled
    >   with the flag anyway, so if anything changes, we eliminate some bugs.
    >   The only theoretical issue would be if a library we ship uses CHAR_MAX
    >   in an interface.  I personally haven't seen this for good reasons.
    >   The only interface I know is localeconv(3) in glibc and this interface
    >   is now corrected.
    >
    > ~ minor fix for SPARC