Re: 2nd Linux kernel patch to remove stack exec

Miguel de Icaza (miguel@NUCLECU.UNAM.MX)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:08:15 -0500

> > Objective C uses trampolines, also. GNU libc 2.0 uses trampolines ...
>
> The next version won't. I've sent Ulrich a patch which makes the Linux part
> of glibc trampoline-free (there were rather fewer than I expected). Since no
> one uses ObjC, that should make a non-executable stack possible.

Well, we certainly use Objective-C and all of the GNUstep project uses
Objective C.

Cheers,
Miguel.

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