Re: [Valgrind-developers] debugging valgrind

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

> > and with NX-aware processores and kernels it will no longer work.
>
> I'm no expert on that stuff, but I believe that GCC just turns off the
> no-exec functionality in such systems in these cases.  Nasty, huh?

If the NX functionality is turnable-offable from user-space, how can it 
have any value as a security enhancement mechanism?

/me suspects /me has misunderstood something.

J