Re: [Swarm-Support] Re: Swarm 2.2 on Intel (and PPC) Mac OSX Tiger

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Bill Northcott wrote:
> As posted, it will not build with Apple's gcc-4, the compiler you 
> should be using, because it contains nested function definitions.  
> These are strongly deprecated and will soon be disabled for security 
> reasons.
What compilers usually do to get an executable stack is to arrange to 
get it on a case by case basis using mprotect(2).  E.g. see these messages:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2005-12/msg00174.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2005-12/msg00177.html

I was under the impression that this problem was just a regression in GCC.
Is there a later archived discussion and/or Bugzilla documentation of 
this deprecation?