How do you enable stack smashing protection for an iOS app built with Xamarin?

Question

If I'm not mistaken, if you want to enable stack smashing protection in an iOS app built with XCode, you need to specify the –fstack-protector-all compiler flag. Is there some analogous action in Xamarin that does this? Is it done by default?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It is not supported.

Managed languages in general come with built-in "arrays bounds checking", so the major use for this tool is not very useful with C# code.

There are scenarios where this is needed, for example, if you invoke native code using P/Invoke. So those scenarios would not be covered.