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Authored by jhb on Jul 20 2023, 7:55 PM.
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lld assumes -znoexecstack by default whereas ld.bfd still defaults to
-zexecstack in the absence of .note.GNU-stack annotations. Adding the
flags centrally avoids having to patch various libraries in the tree
as one-offs (e.g. OpenSSL 3 is the current thing generating new
warnings with ld.bfd).

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