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@@ -2701,6 +2701,22 @@ option causes a warning to be issued whenever this case occurs. Only warn once for each undefined symbol, rather than once per module which refers to it. +@kindex --warn-rwx-segments +@cindex warnings, on writeable and exectuable segments +@cindex executable segments, warnings on +@item --warn-rwx-segments +@itemx --no-warn-rwx-segments +Warn if the linker creates a loadable, non-zero sized segment that has +all three of the read, write and execute permission flags set. Such a +segment represents a potential security vulnerability. In addition +warnings will be generated if a thread local storage segment is +created with the execute permission flag set, regardless of whether or +not it has the read and/or write flags set. + +These warnings are enabled by default. They can be disabled via the +@option{--no-warn-rwx-segments} option and re-enabled via the +@option{--warn-rwx-segments} option. + @kindex --warn-section-align @cindex warnings, on section alignment @cindex section alignment, warnings on |