[fpc-pascal] Executable stack in shared library

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!
Thank you for the information! I use FPC 2.4.0 but get this warning...
Here's the output of readelf -l on the shared library:
----------------------------
Elf file type is DYN (Shared object file)
Entry point 0xf3db0
There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000358c9c 0x0000000000358c9c  R E    200000
  LOAD           0x0000000000359000 0x0000000000559000 0x0000000000559000
                 0x00000000000f11b0 0x0000000000108380  RW     200000
  DYNAMIC        0x0000000000359028 0x0000000000559028 0x0000000000559028
                 0x0000000000000210 0x0000000000000210  RW     8
  GNU_STACK      0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000  RWE    8

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .hash .dynsym .dynstr .gnu.version .gnu.version_r .rela.dyn
.rela.plt .init .plt .text .fini .eh_frame 
   01     .ctors .dtors .jcr .dynamic .got .got.plt .data fpc.resources
.bss fpc.reshandles 
   02     .dynamic 
   03
---------------------------
It seems like the E flag is set.
I compile the library with this compiler parameters:
-MObjFPC -Scgi -O1 -gl -vewnhi -l
-Fu/usr/share/fpcsrc/2.4.0/packages/dbus/src/
-Fu/usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.29/lcl/units/x86_64-linux/
-Fu/usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.29/lcl/units/x86_64-linux/nogui/ -Fu. -vm5024 -fPIC

(I removed some of the -FU includes)

Regards
 Matthias


On Fri, 21 May 2010 19:53:04 +0200, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
wrote:
> On 21 May 2010, at 18:50, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 
>> I package a Freepascal project for Debian which uses a shared library.
If
>> I
>> run the quality analysis on those packages, I get a warning, that the
>> shared library has an executable stack.
> 
> Which version of FPC are you using? We have been adding the "do not
create
> an executable stack" section to ELF files since FPC 2.2.4 already. 
> 
>> Why does it have one, if it is
>> not necessary?
> 
> The default of the GNU binutils is "create an executable stack". The
object
> files have to contain a special section for it to be disabled.
> 
>> How can I disable this in FPC?
> 
> Update your FPC version. There's also a linker parameter that you can
use,
> but that's not the recommended approach.
> 
> 
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