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Re: executable stack in gcc shared libs?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: pluto at agmk dot net
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:32:35 +0000
- Subject: Re: executable stack in gcc shared libs?
- References: <gSpRER40.1206102371.0593850.pluto@agmk.net>
pluto@agmk.net wrote:
> 21/3/2008, "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com> napisał/a:
>
>> pluto@agmk.net wrote:
>>> 21/3/2008, "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com> 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.