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On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:11:33PM +0200, Kant wrote:
> >> it seems gnu as has an undocumented --noexecstack flag for this
> >>
> >>   gcc -Wa,--noexecstack -c foo.s
> >>
> >> adds the .notes.GNU-stack section
> >
> > So this seems to be the solution. I suspect it will need a configure
> > check for the option being supported. Any other caveats?
> >
> > Rich
> The glibc build is using this. clang also supports this.
> 
> Should be okay to use.

Sorry it took a long time to get this fixed -- I completely forgot it
hadn't been done. Just committed to git. Please let me know if there
are any problems, or if you know of other neglected issues like this
one.

Rich