Re: [Swarm-Support] executable code on the stack (revisited)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Gary Polhill wrote:

> In the end I persuaded them to disable the security fix on the machine I needed 
> to run Swarm on, but now I have to run a different model on a 10 CPU Sun box 
> and there is *no way* they are going to disable any security features on 0.5M 
> GBP worth of kit!
>  
If these are new machines running Solaris 8 or Solaris 9, and GCC 3.3.1 
(or any relatively new version), then I think there aren't any needed 
changes.  I never have had to reconfigure any of the Suns I use at 
work.  I believe the compiler just tells the system "ok I'm going to do 
this now", and the system makes temporary, appropriate accomodations...