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Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:42:50PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Some gcc versions generate a call to __enable_execute_stack() in
>> trampolines for nested functions. This is the case for new Cygwin gcc-4.3.2.
>>
>> Other GRUB2 target platforms may be affected - the following files in
>> 'gcc-4.3.2/gcc/config' source directory contains implementations of this
>> function for libgcc:
>>
>> alpha/osf.h
>> darwin.h
>> netbsd.h
>
> I recall this was also an issue for NetBSD indeed.  Could someone confirm it
> fixes the problem there?

It does fix the problem on NetBSD, thanks Christian.