</dl>
-<p><a name="linkage_external"></a>For example, since the "<tt>.LC0</tt>"
+<p>For example, since the "<tt>.LC0</tt>"
variable is defined to be internal, if another module defined a "<tt>.LC0</tt>"
variable and was linked with this one, one of the two would be renamed,
preventing a collision. Since "<tt>main</tt>" and "<tt>puts</tt>" are
protector. It is in the form of a "canary"—a random value placed on the
stack before the local variables that's checked upon return from the function to
see if it has been overwritten. A heuristic is used to determine if a function
-needs stack protectors or not.</dd>
+needs stack protectors or not.
-<dt><tt>ssp-req</tt></dt>
+<p>If a function that has an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute is inlined into a function
+that doesn't have an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute, then the resulting function will
+have an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><tt>sspreq</tt></dt>
<dd>This attribute indicates that the function should <em>always</em> emit a
stack smashing protector. This overrides the <tt><a href="#ssp">ssp</a></tt>
-function attribute.</dd>
+function attribute.
+
+<p>If a function that has an <tt>sspreq</tt> attribute is inlined into a
+function that doesn't have an <tt>sspreq</tt> attribute or which has
+an <tt>ssp</tt> attribute, then the resulting function will have
+an <tt>sspreq</tt> attribute.</p></dd>
</dl>
</div>
</td>
</tr><tr class="layout">
<td class="left"><tt>{i32, i32} (i32)</tt></td>
- <td class="left">A function taking an <tt>i32></tt>, returning two
- <tt> i32 </tt> values as an aggregate of type <tt>{ i32, i32 }</tt>
+ <td class="left">A function taking an <tt>i32</tt>, returning two
+ <tt>i32</tt> values as an aggregate of type <tt>{ i32, i32 }</tt>
</td>
</tr>
</table>