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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:38:41 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        dslb@tiscali.dk
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The stack and heap
Message-ID:  <3DFA0D11.6C688123@mindspring.com>
References:  <3D9FE83900007F16@cpfe4.be.tisc.dk>

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dslb@tiscali.dk wrote:
> I just have a few question about execution of code on the stack or heap.
> It is possible in FreeBSD right? But why does the stack and heap need to
> be executable?

So Franz LISP can run, and so JITs can run, and so dlopen works.

OpenBSD recently changed this, after a lot of work.  They only
addressed the stack, not the heap.  I don't know what they did
about Swing or Franz LISP; maybe they just don't work on OpenBSD
now.

-- Terry

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