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buildflags.md: Treat -fstack-clash-protection as a generic flag

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And mention the two exceptions (armhfp, and for clang, aarch64).
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@ -273,6 +273,13 @@ The general (architecture-independent) build flags are:
variables. (If the address of a variable is never taken, it is not
possible that a buffer overflow is caused by incorrect pointer
arithmetic involving a pointer to that variable.)
* `-fstack-clash-protection`: Turn on instrumentation to avoid
skipping the guard page in large stack frames. (Without this flag,
vulnerabilities can result where the stack overlaps with the heap,
or thread stacks spill into other regions of memory.) This flag is
fully ABI-compatible and has adds very little run-time overhead.
This flag is currently not available on armhfp (both `gcc` and `clang`
toolchains aond on aarch64 with the `clang` toolchain.
* `-flto=auto`: Enable link-time optimization (LTO), using `make` job server
integration for parallel processing. (`gcc` toolchain only)
* `-ffat-lto-objects`: Generate EFL object files which contain both
@ -318,13 +325,6 @@ added by default. This can be switched off by undefining the
These compiler flags are enabled for all builds (hardened/annotated or
not), but their selection depends on the architecture:
* `-fstack-clash-protection`: Turn on instrumentation to avoid
skipping the guard page in large stack frames. (Without this flag,
vulnerabilities can result where the stack overlaps with the heap,
or thread stacks spill into other regions of memory.) This flag is
fully ABI-compatible and has adds very little run-time overhead, but
is only available on certain architectures (currently aarch64, i386,
ppc64le, s390x, x86_64).
* `-fcf-protection`: Instrument binaries to guard against
ROP/JOP attacks. Used on i686 and x86_64.
* `-mbranch-protection=standard`: Instrument binaries to guard against