On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:43 AM, David Coppa <dco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Ted Unangst wrote: > >> So I was supposed to be working on making the JIT engine conform to W^X a few >> months ago. It took a bit longer than expected, but I had a mostly working >> patch. Then I disappeared from OpenBSD for a bit and took my patch with me. >> Last week I was just starting to feed that patch upstream to firefox, when I >> found out about another developer who had already done similar work. Sigh. >> >> The official firefox patch seems likely to ship in some future version, which >> is good news for everyone. It's quite similar to the patch I had (though more >> polished). To make it available sooner for OpenBSD, here's a backport to the >> Firefox in ports. >> >> I haven't been able to test this very much, as I'm still at BSDCan, but when >> I >> get back next week I hope to be able to devote more time to finalizing this >> patch. Posting now to let people know it's coming and to give a preview if >> you're interested. > > Hi! > > The official patch is now in.
Just a heads up... W^X is now enabled on the Nightly channel, on all platforms. Assuming there are no bugs nor serious performance issues, this will ship in Firefox 46. See: http://jandemooij.nl/blog/2015/12/29/wx-jit-code-enabled-in-firefox/ Ciao! David
