Re: Getting ready to land native-compilation on master

[wilde]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> - I hat to disable memory protection on the system to make the native
>>   compiler work:
>>     sysctl -w security.pax.mprotect.global=0
>>     sysctl -w security.pax.mprotect.enabled=0
>>   This is not a Emacs specific problem but a problem with libgccjit
>>   itself.  (The basic gcc jit "Hello World" example also fails with
>>   memory protection in place).
>
> I'm not sure I understand why this happens, but I think this issue
> should be reported to the GCC Bugzilla.

It turns out, that disabling security.pax.mprotect.global is enough,
however this still poses a potential security risk and means that
libgccjit can not be used on default setup of NetBSD.

I created a upstream report:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100096

cheers
sascha