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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
	"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
	Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>,
	"Loren J. Rittle" <ljrittle@acm.org>,
	 Kai Tietz <ktietz@redhat.com>,
	Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>,
	 Jason Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org>,
	Krister Walfridsson <krister.walfridsson@gmail.com>,
	 Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	 Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [build] Move ENABLE_EXECUTE_STACK to toplevel libgcc
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEC9C6A.3050106@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ydd1uz7qpx4.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

On 06/06/2011 11:17 AM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> * Instead of __FreeBSD__, one could use HAVE_SYSCTLBYNAME instead, but
>    that would need a new libgcc config.h header.  In addition, we might
>    have to check for kern.stackprot to make sure the code really works.
>
> * Similarly, instead of testing __sun__&&  __svr4__, one could check
>    _SC_STACK_PROT.
>
> * Last, rather than checking __NetBSD__, one could go for HAVE___SYSCTL.
>
> * __sysctl is currently declared manully.  AFAICS there's no header for
>    that.  At least the FreeBSD libc declares it itself in two places:
>    lib/libc/sys/stack_protector.c and lib/libc/gen/sysctl.c.
>
> Given that this is closely tied to the various platforms, it seems
> appropriate to continue to use the OS defines.

Agreed, it would be a worse can of worms when bootstrapping a target 
(i.e. no target headers are available).

Parts I can approve are good.  Thanks!

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-06  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30 18:09 Rainer Orth
2011-05-30 20:09 ` Kai Tietz
2011-05-31  9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-31 16:40   ` Rainer Orth
2011-05-31 16:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-03 15:45       ` Rainer Orth
2011-06-03 16:01         ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-06  9:18           ` Rainer Orth
2011-06-06  9:23             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-06-07 15:20             ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-06-07 15:31               ` Rainer Orth
2011-06-07 15:45                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-06-07 19:17                 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-06-09  7:50                   ` Rainer Orth
2011-06-09  9:57                     ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-06-09 12:06                     ` Bernd Schmidt
2011-06-04 11:00         ` Gerald Pfeifer
2011-06-04 11:17         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-06-07 14:00       ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-06-07 14:57         ` Rainer Orth
2011-05-31 18:11 ` Mike Stump

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