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by jergal 6057 days ago
Look at the output of `objdump -d prog | grep call | grep _chk | wc -l', if the value returned is zero/0/0x0 you haven't got FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled, and would be unnecessary to add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

However this is dependant upon implementation set restrictions and defaults.