I've gone ahead and fixed it, and referenced the patches in the ticket. Cheers, Edward
Excerpts from Jens Petersen's message of Mon Jul 08 21:36:42 -0700 2013: > Hi, > > We noticed [1] in Fedora that ghc (7.4 and 7.6) are linking executables > (again [2]) with the executable stack flag set. I haven't starting looking > at the ghc code yet but wanted to ask first if it is intentional/necessary? > (ghc-7.0 doesn't seem to do this.) Having the flag set is considered a bit > of a security risk so it would be better if all generated executable did > not have it set. > > I did some very basic testing of various executables, clearing their > flags [3] and they all seemed to run ok without the executable stack flag > set but I can't claim to have tested very exhaustively. (I thought perhaps > it might be related to TemplateHaskell for example but even those > executables seem to work, though I am sure I have not exercised all the > code paths.) > > Does someone know the current status of this? > Will anything break if the flag is not set? > Is it easy to patch ghc to not set the flag? > Does it only affect the NCG backend? > > Thanks, Jens > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973512 > [2] http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/703 > [3] using "execstack -c" _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
