Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: executable stacks, a few suggetions | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:40:54 -0700 (PDT) |
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> Why not decide that gcc is broken as long as it uses trampolines > without adding explicit code to first make the stack executable ?
Because you don't want to be able to turn stack execution on once it has been disabled. Better is to have a function to turn it off, and as a bonus old code will still work.
I am very concerned about the portability implications of this, though.
-hpa
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