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Re: Question about libffi closure

David Edelsohn writes:
 > >>>>> Andrew Haley writes:
 > 
 > Andrew> We're only changing the testsuite.   We can ifdef where necessary.
 >   
 > 	And you can test on a variety of systems before changing the
 > testsuite.  Substituting failures on one set of systems for another is not
 > progress.

Of course not.  However, we know the testsuite is wrong, and we don't
have access to every system.  So, it makes perfect sense to ifdef for
PROT_EXEC and use that.  No-one was proposing to use such a thing
unconditionally.

Andrew.
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