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> Glibc broke certain games / Steam by removing some parts of their ELF implementation: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32653 . They backed due to huge backlash from the community.

It would be better if you specified which part was removed: support for executable code on stack. This is used in 99% cases by malware so it is better to break 1% of broken programs and have other 99% run safer.



The comments on that bug report mention several language runtimes getting broken. Preventing languages that are generally safer than C from working seems rather counterproductive to overall security.




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