Re: [avr-gcc-list] Improving in leaps and skips!

[Jeff Barlow]

Marek Michalkiewicz <address@hidden>  wrote:

>Trampolines can't work on the AVR because it is not possible to execute
>code from writable memory.

I would think they are becoming problematic on the more
mainstream architectures also. It's been recognized that
executing code on the stack opens the door to various security
exploits. Newer Linux kernels, on some CPUs, are using the new NX
bits to make data memory regions non executable.

-- 
Later,
Jeff