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Re: more test results for Gaby's 3.3.4-prerelease tarball
- From: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr (Marc Espie)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc:
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:51:06 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: more test results for Gaby's 3.3.4-prerelease tarball
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In article <20040521112408.A9153@synopsys.com> you write:
>Here are three more successful results for 3.3.4-prerelease.
>
>x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (Red Hat Enterprise WS3, Opteron):
>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-05/msg00951.html
>For WS3 there are a number of extra failures because the stack protection
>breaks trampolines.
>
We've had exec stack protection on OpenBSD for a few years now.
Doesn't prevent stuff like ada or nested function calls for running,
since gcc does have a framework to re-add execute protection to the
stack in limited cases.
On non-broken unix-like systems, mmap will do the trick...