James Carlson wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> New objects built on OpenSolaris ought to use a non-exec stack by >> default. Without user intervention. I think executable stacks should >> be an opt-in feature. >>
Does this have any implications with respect to the SPARC ABI? If so, I suspect this would need some liaising with SPARC International Inc. >> Btw, I'm of the mind that it may be questionable to retain the old v1 >> mapfile syntax for very long. As indicated, not many people are using >> it, and we really shouldn't have to carry around baggage ~forever. I >> don't think the mapfile syntax was ever officially part of our source >> compatibility story. :-) >> > > I think that's a step too far. Yes, they're Committed interfaces and, > no, it would not be good to have them go away. > Pretty much every backwards incompatible change will result in loss of some customer(s) and some revenue. So doing this gratuitously without very good cause should be avoided. Also note that analyzer(1) creates mapfiles. -- Andrew
