You are correct -- we now add a .note.GNU-stack to the assembly file
if the assembler supports it, so that patch should no longer be needed.
Brian
On Aug 18, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Manuel Prinz wrote:
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time which I think is obsolete.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
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