From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> To: sdl@libsdl.org Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:57:37 -0500 Subject: [SDL] exec stack in libsdl update i posted back in September a patch to remove executable stacks: http://www.devolution.com/pipermail/sdl/2005-September/070626.html later in November, a similar patch was merged it seems: http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/SDL12/src/hermes/mmx_main.asm however, this lacks the additional output format checks that i posted in my patch ... this isnt a problem if the hermes asm code is only ever used to produce ELF objects, but if this is not true, then the additional checks in my original patch will need to be merged -mike

The reason these libraries are built outside of the standard XFree86
tree is so that they can be linked as shared object code directly into
SDL without causing any symbol collisions with code in the application.

You can't link static library code into shared libraries on non-x86
Linux platforms.  Since these libraries haven't become standard yet,
we'll just include them directly.

These sources are synchronized with XFree86 4.2.1