This is the mail archive of the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list for the binutils project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [RFC] [MIPS] Enable non-executable PT_GNU_STACK support v2


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:01:18PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-02-05 10:38, Faraz Shahbazker wrote:
> > Bump!
> > 
> > Related patches for review:
> > * binutils: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00567.html
> > * gcc :     https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-02/msg00444.html
> > 
> 
> It seems that the patches are present in the 2.27 binutils release,
> while they are not yet ready on the glibc side (I guess still waiting
> on the IFUNC patches).
> 
> This means that building binaries with -Wl,-z,noexecstack set the ABI
> version to 5 and we then have no way to execute them. Some configure
> scripts probe for the availability of this option and enable it
> automatically.

Would it be possible to revert (or provide option to disable) these
changes in binutils 2.28?

A.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]