Siju George wrote:
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so does this mean that W^X support was available on EM64T
processorseven before XD bit was added if you use OpenBSD?
Sure it was...IF you ran OpenBSD/i386 on it.
If you ran OpenBSD/amd64, no.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2004-02/2145.html
http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html
(I think that second paragraph needs to be updated for the newer Intel
chips which emulate amd64 chips in a less sucky way, but I'm not sure of
the details, so someone else needs to look that one over)
Nick.