From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:11:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050206131130.GJ30109@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050206130650.GA32015@infradead.org>
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:06:50PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > correct,
> > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2004-June/021592.html
> > >
> > > that fixes mono instead
> >
> > Silent breakage => bad.
>
> silent breakage for newly compiled buggty and non-portable code.
Executing custom code in mmap is by definition non portable,
so this argument doesn't make very much sense.
>
> Still not nice but certainly tolerable.
I strongly disagree that breaking source level compatibility silently like
this is tolerable.
Especially since it won't even affect most users, so most developers
won't notice it, only the x86-64 users. This makes it extremly
silent for most people.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-06 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-06 11:36 [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11 Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 11:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 12:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 12:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 12:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 12:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 13:01 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 13:09 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 13:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-06 13:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-02-06 13:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 13:46 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 14:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 14:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 14:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 17:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 17:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 18:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 17:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 12:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 15:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-02-06 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 17:58 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:11 ` Paweł Sikora
[not found] ` <200502061303.12377.pluto@pld-linux.org>
[not found] ` <20050206124701.GD30109@wotan.suse.de>
2005-02-06 18:07 ` Paweł Sikora
2005-02-06 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
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