FWIW, Fedora core 2 works OK with this change.
Does that mean we can delete the other PROBLEMS item?
(The one about exec_shield, that is.)
The exec-shield workaround kicks in if the difference between the end
of the data section and the start of the heap is greater than
MAX_HEAP_BSS_DIFF which is 1 Mbyte. But MAX_HEAP_BSS_DIFF is a value
I came up with when examining the exec-shield code in the Linux
kernel for Fedora 2. However, there is nothing preventing a new exec-
shield implementation to change this. Also, as far as I know, the
workaround has only been tested on the ix86 architecture.
So I'd propose we keep it in PROBLEMS, but we could add that Emacs
tries to handle exec-shield itself. A note on how to disable the
randomization should be added to PROBLEMS also.
Jan D.
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