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Re: [RFC] [MIPS] Enable non-executable PT_GNU_STACK support
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Faraz Shahbazker <faraz dot shahbazker at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:51:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] [MIPS] Enable non-executable PT_GNU_STACK support
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- References: <56A15768.20005@imgtec.com>
On 01/21/2016 11:10 PM, Faraz Shahbazker wrote:
Currently the MIPS FPU emulator uses eXecute Out of Line (XOL) on the stack to
handle instructions in the delay slots of FPU branches. Because of this MIPS
cannot have a non-executable stack.
Is this true for all MIPS variants?
Thanks,
Florian