Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:06:07 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: Unexecutable stack |
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On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 04:36:59PM +0000, John Alvord wrote: > One interesting point is that Linus was talking about methods of > eliminating the need for trampolining a few weeks ago. That would make > a non-executible stack trivial to implement.
A few years ago, I spent some time trying to remove all of the places where the complier implicitly assumes trampolines were allocated on the stack, and after a while, I gave up. It would probably take a similar effort from somebody familiar with the compiler internals.
-- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886 email: meissner@cygnus.com phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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