Friday, June 30, 2023

Re: lang/* BTI breakage - lang/sbcl

Sebastien Marie <semarie@online.fr> wrote:

> sbcl compilation works by generating native code inside live managed memory, and
> permits to save the whole memory image to a file.
>
> it is why the binary currently also needs WX and RX memory (I intent to work a
> bit on it if possible).
>
> When generating an executable, it is copying /usr/local/bin/sbcl binary as base,
> and append the (optionally compressed) memory image to the file, to create a
> standalone executable.
>
> When the output file is executed, it is reading its own image, loads it in
> memory, and use an entrypoint for loaded code.
>
> So the generated file has all the flags it needs to run (because copied from
> /usr/local/bin/sbcl binary).

It is ridiculous.

Even emacs stopped doing that.

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