Patches for the next release

[Torbjorn Granlund]

"Steve M. Robbins" <steve at sumost.ca> writes:

  Hi Torbjörn,
  
  On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:18:11PM +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
  
  > I am preparing GMP 4.2.3, and if you have some safe C++ portability
  > changes for that release, please sedn them to the list.
  
  If you're making a new release, please consider the following patch.
  GMP builds several objects from assembly code that end up with an
  executable stack.  The executable stack turns out to be a problem 
  on systems with a security hardened kernel such as "grsec".  See
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323944 for more
  details.
  
  After applying this patch, you need to run autoreconf.
  
Why does only assmbly code suffer from this problem, why isn't C code
also affected?

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Torbjörn