Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 15:14:13 EST


On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Btw, since you're clearly at the keyboard now: I do agree with Christoph
> that it would be a lot cleaner to just say that all architectures have to
> have a arch_align_stack() define, instead of having a
> __HAVE_ARCH_ALIGN_STACK define.
>
> After all, a trivial implementation would apparently just be
>
> #define arch_align_stack(x) (x)
>
> which is not too much of a bother to maintain for an architecture that
> doesn't want to do this ;)

yes I will make this change and post it a bit later
(I want to at least test compile it for a few)


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