How to make the stack of a C program executable?

Is there a way to make the stack of a C program executable through compilation?

I did

$ gcc -o convert -g convert

and then run

$ readelf -l convert

to check if the stack is executable but the output was:

GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RW  0x4

The correct way to make the stack executable doesn't require that stack canaries be disabled, unlike what the accepted answer suggests.

Here's the correct way:

gcc -z execstack ...

What this does is, the -z option of gcc is passed to the linker [source]:

keyword

-z is passed directly on to the linker along with the keyword keyword. See the section in the documentation of your linker for permitted values and their meanings.

From man ld [source]:

execstack

Marks the object as requiring executable stack.