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Re: [vms/committed] Do not make CODE sections writable

From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>
Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:02:41 +0200
Subject: Re: [vms/committed] Do not make CODE sections writable
References: <FABFF683-A9FF-41F3-A507-86F777B424A3@adacore.com> <m362zqu4rk.fsf@hase.home> <6B8D2D52-503B-4FF2-B3EB-CE74587342CE@adacore.com>

On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:

> 
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
>> Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
>> 
>>> a one word patch to prevent CODE sections from being writable in bfd outputs.
>> 
>> Why?  In principle, there should be nothing wrong with having a writable
>> code section.  If SEC_READONLY isn't set when it should it looks like a
>> bug elsewhere.
> 
> Ah.  I will investigate that.

In object files, the CODE sections were not marked read-only.  I am testing a fix.

Thanks for catching this,
Tristan.

References:
- [vms/committed] Do not make CODE sections writable
  - From: Tristan Gingold
- Re: [vms/committed] Do not make CODE sections writable
  - From: Andreas Schwab
- Re: [vms/committed] Do not make CODE sections writable
  - From: Tristan Gingold

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