[PATCH] PT_GNU_STACK

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:16:46PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> That's true.  But is it reasonable to assume that a non-branded .o file 
> should be rwx?  It's going to make it too easy to accidently create 

IMHO yes. There is always -z execstack or -z noexecstack in my patch,
where the developer can override the automatic decision.

> The intent was names, not contents, could be used to make the decision 
> and that would avoid the double read.

But section names aren't visible at runtime. Unless ld is patched, you'd
end up with zero to 2 zero-sized PT_NOTE sections. Am I missing something?

	Jakub