Patches for the next release

[Torbjorn Granlund]

  > Why does only assmbly code suffer from this problem, why isn't C code
  > also affected?
  
  Good question.  I hadn't considered this, but google led me to the
  answer:
  
      When you compile source code normally, gcc takes care of adding
      the GNU_STACK markings so that the final object code is not marked
      with an executable stack unless it actually needs it. However, if
      you compile assembly code, gcc will not automatically add
      GNU_STACK markings. So, the most common source of executable
      stacks in ELF binaries are packages which include raw assembly
      code. Note that we're not talking about inline assembly code, but
      rather files like .S which are written in pure assembler.
  
      We can either patch each source file written in assembler and send
      the fixes upstream, or we can force the package build system to
      assemble the source files with the GNU as option --noexecstack
  
      http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml
  
Your quotation stopped abruptly just before "(but this is highly
discouraged)".  :-)

I suppose we should really implement their suggested solution, i.e.,
annotate the source.  For for 4.2.3, the --noexecstack fix will have
to do.

-- 
Torbjörn