John Plocher wrote: > > Matty wrote: > >> On 1/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, why would the data segment ever need to be > >> executable? > > The old NeWS and X/NeWS servers generated custom RasterOp code > on the stack as part of the VGA framebuffer driver...
What about libraries on SPARC ? ARAIK the global data of libraries should be non-executable by default like it is done on i386/AMD64 (the lack of a public commit history in the OS/Net tree now hurts badly since I can't figure out myself (or fetch the email of the person who did the change and simply ask about the details via email) why global library data were marked as non-executable for i386/AMD64 but not for SPARC (32bit+64bit)). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
