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hardening: Document INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN behavior with GCC

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The help text for INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN documents the patterns used by
Clang, but lacks documentation for GCC.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/293d29d6a0d1823165be97285c1bc73e90ee9db8.1736239070.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ choice
repeating for all types and padding except float and double
which use 0xFF repeating (-NaN). Clang on 32-bit uses 0xFF
repeating for all types and padding.
GCC uses 0xFE repeating for all types, and zero for padding.
config INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO
bool "zero-init everything (strongest and safest)"