> I've recently played a bit with Solar Designer's patch and it looks
> that it doesn't have any significant overhead. Shoudn't it be in the
> kernel by default(at least,SECURE_STACK)?
GCC needs an executable stack to implement nested subprograms, which
are used quite frequently if you program for other GCC frontends than
C or C++.
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