Re: serious performance regression due to NX patch

[Ingo Molnar]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, David Mosberger wrote:

>   Ingo> is it an issue? Each new port will have PT_GNU_STACK, unless they base
>   Ingo> themselves on old compilers.
> 
> PT_GNU_STACK is pure bloat on new architectures (and ia64).

EF_IA_64_LINUX_EXECUTABLE_STACK is using elf_ex->e_flags. I did it the
same way for x86 originally, but the tools people specifically rejected it
as a hack. We dont control the ELF specification, but a new gcc section
like PT_GNU_STACK is fair game. So it might be 'bloat' but it's clean and
doesnt try to hijack.

	Ingo
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