Removing nested function from elfxx-aarch64.c

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Mar 5 11:22:49 GMT 2025


On Mär 05 2025, Nick Clifton wrote:

>   issue).  More than that however they can require the use of an executable
>   stack (depending upon the compiler and the architecture) and this is
>   a bad thing from a security point of view.

Only if the address of the function is passed outside the static scope
(as a callback, for example), which is not used here.

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