Re: [AD] Improvements for OpenBSD

[Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Catatonic Porpoise wrote:
> Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 06 February 2006 23:18, Catatonic Porpoise wrote:
> > > Hello, attached is a patch that makes the following improvements:
> > >
> > > * Call mprotect() on generated stretcher code before running it.
> > >   OpenBSD protects memory pages returned from malloc() from being
> > >   executed by default, so this is required for stretch_blit() to not
> > >   segfault, on i386.
> > > * Add an OSTYPE_OPENBSD define and detect it.
> > > * Fix a warning in src/unix/uesd.c.
> > Looks good. I'll apply it later today.
>
> Ping. I notice this is still not in the allegro-4.2 svn branch...
>
> regards,
> Graue

Ah, good catch this explains why I've reports of allegro programs 
crashing when using 32 bit binaries on 64 bit archs (x86_64 has seperate 
executable permissions).

Please apply this for 4.2.1 I (we) need this for Fedora too.

Regards,

Hans