Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

[Gerhard Mack]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> I know that in a FC1 full install there are less than 5 binaries that don't
> run with NX. (one uses nested functions in C and passes function pointers to
> the inner function around which causes gcc to emit a stack trampoline, and
> gcc then marks the binary as non-NX, the others have asm in them that we
> didn't fix in time to be properly marked).

Can you tell if GCC uses trampolines for all use of function pointers or
just ones that use nested functions ?

Also, what is the fastest way to check if GCC is marking non-NX?

	Gerhard

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