Re: executable stack in gcc shared libs?

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executable stack in gcc shared libs?
\ PaweĹ‚ Sikora (20 Mar 2008)
. \ Andrew Haley (21 Mar 2008)
. . \ pluto (21 Mar 2008)
. . . \ Andrew Haley (21 Mar 2008)
. . . . \ pluto (21 Mar 2008)
. . . . . \ Andrew Haley (21 Mar 2008)

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Subject:	Re: executable stack in gcc shared libs?
Group:	Gcc
From:	Andrew Haley
Date:	21 Mar 2008

pluto wrote:
> 21/3/2008, "Andrew Haley" <aph> napisał/a:
>
>> pluto wrote:
>>> 21/3/2008, "Andrew Haley" <aph> napisał/a:
>>>
>>>> I don't know for sure about libgmp, but the others don't need execstack.
>>> hmm, looks like PR libffi/28036.
>> How would this affect libgmp?
>
> proviously listed libgmp is a copy-paste bug,
> but i'm wondering why libffi wasn't fixed since 4.1 release?

Because no-one did it. It's simple enough to do and doesn't require
approval from all the back-ed maintainers individually.

In http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-12/msg00949.html Andrew Pinski
asked a question that was never answered. If doko would answer that
question, the patch could be committed.

Andrew.