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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 22:40:39 -0400
From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Is the sparc64 stack segment executable?
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In-Reply-To: <200210262328.g9QNSrkn045622@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0700
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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 <XFMail.20021026151445.jdp@polstra.com>,
> John Polstra  <jdp@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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