PowerPC paxtest results w/ gcc-4.1

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 00:11 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 
> On 8/12/06, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:
> > Albert Cahalan writes:
> >
> > > VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS32 is wrong. A fail-safe
> > > default is important for security. If gcc on PowerPC ever
> > > does generate code which puts trampolines on the stack,
> > > then that can be fixed by converting to legal C code or
> > > by adding the fragile marking to the defective executables.
> > > Did gcc ever generate such code on PowerPC? If not,
> > > then there is no reason to ever allow an executable stack.
> >
> > I believe it did for nested procedures in C.
> 
> I just disassembled libgcc. You're right. Eeeeeew.
> I filed a bug describing two better methods for this.

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-Hollis