[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayer: PT_GNU_STACK RWE

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

Any progress on this issue - should I file a bugzilla to track it?


On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 23:03 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 February 2005 at 12:46, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 01:52 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:33:44PM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > >> >Better just apply the attached patch. Binary codecs that do not run with
> > >> >noexecstack also won't run on WinXPSP2 with "Data Execution Protection"
> > >> >activated, so if the codec is still maintained there should be a codec
> > >> >that works with it.
> > >> 
> > >> Excellent. The patch results in binaries that are marked PT_GNU_STACK
> > >> RW. Is this patch for me alone, or are you going to merge it in 
> > >> the mplayer source?
> > >
> > >I'd like to get it into CVS but I don't know if it might cause some
> > >linkers to fail because of an unknown option. If so, a configure check
> > >would be necessary - but I hate to write configure checks.
> > >So I'd say it will be applied if somebody else takes care of it...
> > 
> > My version of ld has this, by the way:
> > 
> >   -z KEYWORD            Ignored for Solaris compatibility
> > 
> > It won't complain on nonsense -z values. 
> > Not sure if this is relevant..
> 
> It is. What if we're compiling on Solaris with gcc built with native (not
> GNU) binutils? I can't test this case right now, so I'm putting this as
> food for thought.
> 
> R.
> 
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Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
Cornell University