Messages in this thread |  | | | From | David Howells <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FDPIC: Ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size | | Date | Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:01:40 +0100 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> The patch seems wrong to me; loader needs the stack, too, right? > > What about making sure that the loader specifies reasonable stack > size, instead?
The loader doesn't need its own stack, unless it _is_ the executable. It uses the executable's stack. The problem is that the executable and the loader can both specify the stack size for NOMMU, but which one do we pick, or do we consider both.
David
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