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Re: PCH and exec-shield...
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:05:20 -0800
- Subject: Re: PCH and exec-shield...
- References: <4044DA26.2040802@avtrex.com>
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 11:01, David Daney wrote:
> Using a recent 3.4.0 snapshot, I found that most of the PCH testsuite
> has random failures when run on a machine that has the exec-shield
> "feature" (Fedora Core 1 and probably RH9 also).
>
> It was pointed out to me that putting the following in my
> /etc/sysctl.conf file would fix the problems:
>
> # Turning off exec shield.
> kernel.exec-shield = 0
> kernel.exec-shield-randomize = 0
>
> I searched through the info pages as well as
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html and found no mention of this.
>
> Is this documented anywhere?
I think I've seen it documented on the fedora release notes, but i could
be wrong. If it isn't, it probably should be there as well. I think a
change to changes.html for 3.4 would be good for this - perhaps in the
PCH section.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>