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Re: 2nd Linux kernel patch to remove stack exec

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel de Icaza)
Mon Apr 14 20:16:58 1997

Date: 	Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:08:15 -0500
Reply-To: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@NUCLECU.UNAM.MX>
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@NUCLECU.UNAM.MX>
X-To:         Bernd Schmidt <crux@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  Bernd Schmidt's message of Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:46:38 +0200 (MET
              DST)

> > Objective C uses trampolines, also.  GNU libc 2.0 uses trampolines ...
>
> The next version won't. I've sent Ulrich a patch which makes the Linux part
> of glibc trampoline-free (there were rather fewer than I expected). Since no
> one uses ObjC, that should make a non-executable stack possible.

Well, we certainly use Objective-C and all of the GNUstep project uses
Objective C.

Cheers,
Miguel.
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