Executable memory: some apps that work on RH9 don't on FC1

gemi at bluewin.ch gemi at bluewin.ch
Mon Nov 17 13:39:00 UTC 2003


>If they need executable stack in a way which is not known to the compiler,
>the programmer has to tell it to the toolchain.
>If a program say takes address of a nested function, GCC knows it needs
>executable stack and arranges things automatically.
>Otherwise, either an object file can be marked as needing executable
>stack (with -Wa,--execstack; at least one such object will make the whole
>shared library or binary requiring executable stack), or during link
>time with -Wl,-z,execstack or after it using execstack(8) utility.
>The defaults are such that programs and/or libraries compiled/linked
>on <= RHL9 are always assumed to potentially require executable stack,
>but if you build a new program on FC1, you really need to tell the toolchain
>about it.
>
>	Jakub
>
Thanks for the info. However this seems to be not the only problem.
I tried the execstack method on the mentioned programs without
any success.
Or try to approach it in another way:
The official binary of mit-scheme 7.7.1 (http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme)
segfaults if called with 'scheme -compiler'. In this case the scheme main
program load a 'band' called compiler.com, which contains executable code.
Could somebody investigate this issue? I am not that familiar with problems
like this.





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