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Re: ppc64 exec stack

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:29:15 +0100
Subject: Re: ppc64 exec stack
References: <20070219130205.GI15561@bubble.grove.modra.org>

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> I think that for ppc64 it would make more sense to assume that a file
> without the .note.GNU-stack marker is non-exec stack.  This will allow
> mixing of Redhat object files with mainline gcc, and is in fact the
> correct default for ppc64.

IMHO that would also make sense on ia64, which is non-exec stack by
default as well.

Andreas.

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