On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:03:24AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >> Yeah.  Giving the warning is a good thing though.
> >
> > No, it isn't; it's just noise, if we're not ever going to do anything
> > to prevent the behaviour - and we can't.
> 
> The same userland code will not run correctly on PPC64 or BookE
> systems.  Is that not a reason to warn?

Way back when, I distinctly recall aborting my plans to implement
per-page exec on 40x, precisely because of executables like this.

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