[Pkg-openssl-devel] r57 - in openssl/trunk: . debian

[Christoph Martin]

Kurt Roeckx schrieb:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:03AM +0000, Christoph Martin wrote:
> 
>>add noexecstack option to i386 subarch
> 
> May I ask why you did this, and why only for i386?
> 
>>From what I understand, some thingx (PaX?) don't seems to like
> that a library says it needs an executable stack, while it's
> perfectly valid for it to request it.  Saying that it doesn't
> need one when it actually does will break things.

Please look into
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321721. Openssl does
not need an executable stack. But some assembler code is not marked as
such. Pax complains about it. I made the patch for the i386 arch because
 for this arch was the bugreport. I am not shure if all the other
architectures have the problem. If I remember correctly there are some
processors which do not have executable stacks.

Christoph

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