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Re: Protection errors on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
> 
> Interesting also is that there is a manpage[*] on darwin that says:
> 
>          ...
>          Some architectures do not allow the execution of data by
>          default.  In such cases, it is necessary to manually alter
>          the permissions of the page that contains closure prior to
>          its execution.

It seems that Apple (or perhaps BSD) have a man page for ffi_closure_alloc()
that is private and has never been submitted to libffi.  Typical.  :-(

Andrew.
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