Re: Bug#757052: dietlibc-dev: programs made with diet have executable stacks

Thus spake Thorsten Glaser ([email protected]):
> >all programs made with diet gcc ...
> >have executable stacks. They should not.
> >
> >Workaround:
> >Some tiny programs I tried worked after 
> >execstack -c prog
> >to clear the executable stack flag.
> can you say anything about this?

This should not longer be the case.
I noticed a few months (?) ago and fixed it in the CVS at least.

It turns out that this is caused by assembler files (*.s, not *.c with
inline assembler) that do not declare that the stack is non-executable.

No piece of code in dietlibc actually needs the stack to be executable.

We now pass -Wa,--noexecstack to as in the Makefile.

Felix