Hi everyone, in the Debian package of OpenMPI there has been a patch [1] for some time which I think is obsolete. I did some reading on that topic but I'm not very familiar with assembler, so I'm asking you here.
As far as I can see, removing the patch doesn't change the binaries much. Neither scanelf nor readelf show something I'd consider as suspicious. I think that the .note.GNU-stack instruction is added to the assembler files by generate-asm.pl, so everything's set properly. But as I said, I'm not very familiar with the matter and it would be great to get a statement on that issue from you. (We could drop a rather large patch along with this one, if it's obsolete.) Thanks in advance! Best regards Manuel Footnote: 1. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-openmpi/openmpi/trunk/debian/patches/10opal_noexecstack.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
