more test results for Gaby's 3.3.4-prerelease tarball
Marc Espie
espie@quatramaran.ens.fr
Sun May 23 13:51:00 GMT 2004
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...
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