atom feed6 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-sparc64Re: Is the sparc64 stack segment exec...
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John PolstraOct 26, 2002 3:14 pm 
John PolstraOct 26, 2002 4:28 pm 
Jake BurkholderOct 26, 2002 7:40 pm 
John PolstraOct 27, 2002 10:07 am 
Jake BurkholderOct 27, 2002 10:47 am 
John PolstraOct 27, 2002 10:52 am 
Subject:Re: Is the sparc64 stack segment executable?
From:Jake Burkholder (ja@locore.ca)
Date:Oct 26, 2002 7:40:17 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-sparc64

Apparently, On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0700, John Polstra said words to the effect of;

Answering my own questions ...

In article <XFMa@polstra.com>, John Polstra <jd@polstra.com> wrote:

Is the stack segment on FreeBSD/sparc64 executable?

No.

Next question: Assuming the stack is not executable by default, would it work for the application to make it executable using mprotect?

Yes.

Gcc is not generating the calls to mprotect. Its a simple fix, I'll try to get it committed and get gcc on panther upgraded as soon as I can.

Jake

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