PCH and exec-shield...

[Geoff Keating]

Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

In the installation notes for linux, perhaps?

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>