Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: MacOS X status

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Magnus Henoch <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Greetings!  This is going in (in the case that the local bfd tree is
> > configured and built) -- thanks!  BTW, what is our state in xBSD land? 
> 
> No progress - I haven't had much time to look at it, so it's still
> stuck at the same place, raw_pre_gcl terminating with a memory fault.
> 
> I came to think about another special thing of OpenBSD - W^X (write
> xor exec), which means that memory is either writable or executable,
> never (or almost never?) both.  I don't understand much about such
> things, and I haven't found much documentation.  What I've found is
> this:  http://www.openbsd.org/papers/pacsec03/e/  What would that
> imply about running GCL on OpenBSD?
> 

Well, this would likely require a strighforward call to mprotect for
the bfd and custreloc options.  But you should be able to get
--disable-statsysbfd --enable-dlopen going quickly as is as an
intermediate step. 

Take care,

> Regards,
> Magnus
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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