[PATCH] make PowerPC64 default to nonexecutable stack
Andreas Schwab
schwab@linux-m68k.org
Wed Dec 29 23:54:00 GMT 2010
Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com> writes:
> The PowerPC64 ABI does not require GNU_STACK to maintain nonexec-stack. The
> check-execstack test is falsely reporting exec-stack on PowerPC64.
False. The check-execstack test ignores an executable stack on
PowerPC64.
> No PowerPC64 does not need GNU_STACK to maintain nonexec-stack
You are *completely* missing the point. Like everyone it needs
GNU_STACK to establish non-default stack segment flags.
Andreas.
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