ia64 exec stack (Was: Re: ppc64 exec stack)
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Tue Mar 27 01:04:00 GMT 2007
Jim Wilson <wilson@specifix.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:07 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> > IMHO that would also make sense on ia64, which is non-exec stack by
>> > default as well.
>
> True, but the patch doesn't seem to gain us anything, since Alan was
> fixing a ppc64 specific problem that won't occur on IA-64.
The same problem exists on ia64 as well. There are software packages that
explicitly compile with -Wa,--noexecstack, causing the same kind of mixing
stack notes with absense of notes (from the compiler-supplied object
files). Instead of requiring to remember when --noexecstack should not be
used it is easier to make this case work as intented.
Andreas.
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