RFC: Turning executable stack warnings into errors

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jan, Hi Sam,

>>>    * The change is configurable, but not on by default.
>>
>> I think this part is up to you but it's easier if it's on by default for
>> two reasons:

> I'm actually in favor of it being default-off. I'm building a number of
> older versions of OS-kernel-like things, 

What I think would be best would be to default to feature-off for now.
Once it has been in for a release or two, and distributions like Gentoo
and Suse and Fedora have had a chance to use it and audit their code
bases, then it would make sense to change the default to "feature-on".

Cheers
   Nick