[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayer: PT_GNU_STACK RWE

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

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..

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Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
Cornell University