state.</dd>
<dt><tt><a name="ssp">ssp</a></tt></dt>
-<dd><p>This attribute indicates that the function should emit a stack smashing
+<dd>This attribute indicates that the function should emit a stack smashing
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.</p>
+needs stack protectors or not.
<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><p>This attribute indicates that the function should <em>always</em> emit a
+<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.</p>
+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