Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:11:30 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11 |
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:06:50PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > correct, > > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2004-June/021592.html > > > > > > that fixes mono instead > > > > Silent breakage => bad. > > silent breakage for newly compiled buggty and non-portable code.
Executing custom code in mmap is by definition non portable, so this argument doesn't make very much sense.
> > Still not nice but certainly tolerable.
I strongly disagree that breaking source level compatibility silently like this is tolerable.
Especially since it won't even affect most users, so most developers won't notice it, only the x86-64 users. This makes it extremly silent for most people.
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