And about performance reason? Thanks once more.
On 7/28/05, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-28 14:58]: > > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:36 -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > > > Why do you say that? performance and security implications???? > > > > > > amd64 supports W^X in hardware, i386 doesn't. > > > > > > > Bingo. You got it. > > This is hogwash. Our W^X support is just as solid on i386 as it is on > amd64, because on all our platforms we are very careful with the > mapping of X and W objects. The i386 does fine. > > That is not a valid security reason. Sorry.
