Re: Getting ready for the 2.39 branch/release

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

On 23.06.22 12:07, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> > Debian and Ubuntu are using the current trunk for the releases in development. 
> > There's currently one issue that I'm aware of:
> >
> >    https://bugs.debian.org/1013244
>
> Is there a corresponding binutils PR for this ?

No, not yet.

> Would the attached patch solve the problem ?

did you want to set ac_default_ld_warn_rwx_segments in the second chunk?

> If the need for an executable stack is restricted to the hard-float ABI,
> is there a way to determine this from the target configuration triplet ?
>
> Is there an explanation somewhere of why the hard-float ABI needs an
> executable stack - and possibly how this need might be removed ?

I had asked a mips porter, no reply yet.

Matthias