Re: Unexecutable stack

Florian Weimer ("@deneb.cygnus.argh.org)
27 Dec 1999 22:49:13 +0100


mike@katren.ru (Mike Karmyshev) writes:

> 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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