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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 02 May 2003 22:51:43 +0200
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Followup to:  <200305021829.h42ITclA000178@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
> By author:    John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > Slightly off-topic, but does anybody know whether IA64 or x86-64 allow
> > you to make the stack non-executable in the same way you can on SPARC?
> > 
> 
> x86-64 definitely does, and it's the default on Linux/x86-64.

No we had to turn it off and now it's too late to turn it back on again.
There is also one bug left that prevents it.

-Andi