> (If you want to argue that they should have named it ".note.GNU-noexecstack", I wouldn't disagree.) The presence of that alone won't make the stack noexec, t

> (If you want to argue that they should have named it ".note.GNU-noexecstack", I wouldn't disagree.) The presence of that alone won't make the stack noexec, the status of the stack is determined by whether or not the `executable` flag is set on that section. So calling it the `stack` makes sense, since it in-effect just represents the stack itself, which isn't normally mentioned in the ELF binary.