From owner-freebsd-sparc Sat Oct 26 16:28:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DA637B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04AA43E75 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9QNSsx05840 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9QNSrkn045622; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200210262328.g9QNSrkn045622@vashon.polstra.com> To: sparc@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Subject: Re: Is the sparc64 stack segment executable? In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Answering my own questions ... In article , John Polstra 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. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message