[XviD-devel] [PATCH resend] make the stack non-executable on x86_64 too

[Michael Militzer]

Quoting Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com>:

> Dne Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:31:29 +0200 pageexec at freemail.hu napsal(a):
>> On 16 Sep 2009 at 13:37, Michal Schmidt wrote:
>> > Another bug is that the section name is quoted and the quotes are
>> > interpreted as a part of the name (this can be checked using
>> > readelf -S on the object files). ld then can't find
>> > the .note.GNU-stack sections and assumes executable stack.
>>
>> careful, IIRC, nasm and yasm treat quotes differently and in an
>> incompatible way, so you can produce the correct section name only
>> under one or the other...
>
> Alright, I wasn't aware of that. I tested with nasm.
> I have now verified that with yasm 0.8.0 the sections are named as
> expected and the resulting library does not require executable stack.

Ok, good. Your patch has been applied. Thanks.

Regards,
Michael