Original patch from: ../4.3.2/110-trampolinewarn.patch -= BEGIN original header =- Original patch from gentoo: gentoo/src/patchsets/gcc/4.3.1/gentoo/00_all_gcc-trampolinewarn.patch This trivial patch causes gcc to emit a warning whenever it generates a trampoline. These are otherwise hard to locate. It is rigged to default ON - to have it default to OFF remove the text 'Init(1)' from the common.opt patch, leaving just 'Common Var(warn_trampolines)'. Kevin F. Quinn 17 Jan 2006 -= END original header =- diff -durN gcc-4.3.3.orig/gcc/builtins.c gcc-4.3.3/gcc/builtins.c --- gcc-4.3.3.orig/gcc/builtins.c 2008-08-19 18:37:13.000000000 +0200 +++ gcc-4.3.3/gcc/builtins.c 2009-01-27 22:19:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -5662,6 +5662,9 @@ trampolines_created = 1; INITIALIZE_TRAMPOLINE (r_tramp, r_func, r_chain); + if (warn_trampolines) + warning (OPT_Wtrampolines, "generating trampoline in object (requires executable stack)"); + return const0_rtx; } diff -durN gcc-4.3.3.orig/gcc/common.opt gcc-4.3.3/gcc/common.opt --- gcc-4.3.3.orig/gcc/common.opt 2008-01-22 15:11:44.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc-4.3.3/gcc/common.opt 2009-01-27 22:19:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ Common Var(warn_system_headers) Warning Do not suppress warnings from system headers +Wtrampolines +Common Var(warn_trampolines) Init(1) +Warn whenever a trampoline is generated + Wuninitialized Common Var(warn_uninitialized) Warning Warn about uninitialized automatic variables