Re: [split] Support linker patching

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Jay Foad <jay.foad@gmail.com> writes:

>> +/* Emit a special section directive to indicate that this object file
>> +   was compiled with -fsplit-stack.  This is used to let the linker
>> +   detect calls between split-stack code and non-split-stack code, so
>> +   that it can modify the split-stack code to allocate a sufficiently
>> +   large stack.  We make the section executable if there are any
>> +   functions in this file which have the no_split_stack attribute, to
>> +   prevent the linker from warning about being unable to convert the
>> +   functions if they call non-split-stack code.  */
>
> Is the "we make the section executable" bit out of date?

Whoops, yes.  Thanks.

Ian