Julian Elischer wrote:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Memory on ia32 can be writable and readable. When it is readable it
is also executable. On other arch's like AMD64 and IA64, I believe
memory can be readable, writable and executable.
Not quite. IA32 can make individual segments readable, writable and /
or executable, but lacks the ability to do so on a per-page basis.
Since we have trampoline code at the top of the stack, the entire
stack segment must be executable. Moving the trampoline off the stack
would solve the problem on all platforms.
There has been recent talk of a shared kernel/user memory page..
that could be used for trampoline code.
W^X across the board is not an option - it would break HotSpot and
other JIT-based software.
DES
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and what exactly is that trampoline btw/pls ?
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