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Re:Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015) by ajross on Sunday September 10, 2017 @02:08PM (#15213415)
Binutils has had support for it for as long as it's supported ELF output, which is to say many years longer than x86 has had the NX bit.

It's just not the default, for historical reasons.

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