[PATCH 0/3] eliminate native-built programs for elf/ tests

Ryan S. Arnold ryan.arnold@gmail.com
Tue May 1 21:09:00 GMT 2012


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> 2. check-execstack
>>
>>   It would be good if someone could test this on powerpc64.  That's the
>>   only configuration that might test the case of no PT_GNU_STACK marker
>>   being acceptable, because the platform default is nonexecutable
>>   stack.  But I have no idea if in fact the normal tool arrangements
>>   omit the marker anyway (off hand it seems unlikely).
>
> I dealt with this a few years ago so I've long since forgotten the
> details.  We'll (IBM) take a look.
>
> Ryan

Hi Roland,

I just verified that your branch changes haven't introduced any
test-suite regressions.

The individual tests pass with "no PT_GNU_STACK but default is OK".

Ryan



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