GNU Common Lisp (gcl) - need a new security context?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 16:11:57 UTC 2008


Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:54 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
>> Dropping gcl is a bad idea. gcl generates much better code in many
>> cases;
>> dropping makes Fedora bad for running Common Lisp (CL) applications.
>> There are a lot of CL programs, and CL is still important; "Practical
>> Common Lisp"
>> was published 2005 and was a really popular book.
> I am not unwilling to continue with GCL. However I would need some help
> from people knowing about these issues (on several architectures) and
> how to fix them.

OK.

> BTW, SELinux is only one issue. GCL doesn't compile even with SELinux
> disabled (randomized addresses etc...)

Hmm.  This is because GCL saves its compiled code and expects it to
be loaded at the same address?

Andrew.





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