Re: executable stack flag

2013-07-09 Thread Edward Z. Yang
executable stacks... Edward Excerpts from Jens Petersen's message of Mon Jul 08 21:36:42 -0700 2013: Hi, We noticed [1] in Fedora that ghc (7.4 and 7.6) are linking executables (again [2]) with the executable stack flag set. I haven't starting looking at the ghc code yet but wanted to ask first

Re: executable stack flag

2013-07-09 Thread Edward Z. Yang
I've gone ahead and fixed it, and referenced the patches in the ticket. Cheers, Edward Excerpts from Jens Petersen's message of Mon Jul 08 21:36:42 -0700 2013: Hi, We noticed [1] in Fedora that ghc (7.4 and 7.6) are linking executables (again [2]) with the executable stack flag set. I

executable stack flag

2013-07-08 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi, We noticed [1] in Fedora that ghc (7.4 and 7.6) are linking executables (again [2]) with the executable stack flag set. I haven't starting looking at the ghc code yet but wanted to ask first if it is intentional/necessary? (ghc-7.0 doesn't seem to do this.) Having the flag set is considered