Re: `exec shield' test in configure too strict?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:40:02 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I have checked in a test that runs a program and sees if the heap start
> address is random.

Doesn't this harm cross-building Emacs?  I always thought that running
a test program at configure time should be avoided, and that tests
that only compile or link programs should be peferred.