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Re: [PATCH, GOLD, AArch64] default stack not executable

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Jim Wilson <jim.wilson@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any thoughts on turning on --warn-execstack by default?
>
> --warn-execstack does two things.
> 1) Warn if a missing GNU-stack note causes the stack to be marked as executable.
> 2) Warn if a present GNU-stack note causes the stack to be marked as executable.

Actually, there is a third one in a different function.  I didn't look
far enough.
3) Warn if -z noexecstack and a GNU-stack note is present and causes
the stack to be marked as executable.

I think that one should be on by default.  If a command line option
conflicts with the input files, then it seems like you should give a
warning always.

Jim
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