README: start a section for documenting CFLAGS
Start a section in the README for documenting that custom CFLAGS yields
custom results and that your mileage may vary. The first CFLAG to
document that you likely want to include is -fno-semantic-interposition.
Signed-off-by: William Roberts <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
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distribution. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
+## Setting CFLAGS
+
+Setting CFLAGS during the make process will cause the omission of many defaults. While the project strives
+to provide a reasonable set of default flags, custom CFLAGS could break the build, or have other undesired
+changes on the build output. Thus, be very careful when setting CFLAGS. CFLAGS that are encouraged to be
+set when overriding are:
+
+- -fno-semantic-interposition for gcc or compilers that do not do this. clang does this by default. clang-10 and up
+ will support passing this flag, but ignore it. Previous clang versions fail.
+
+
macOS
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