Brent W. Baccala, on Tue 22 Nov 2016 16:06:18 -1000, wrote: > The Debian /usr/bin/ > gdb, though, is not PIE, which makes me wonder if someone (Samuel?) is > compiling our Debian packages without PIE, to avoid this problem.
PIE has been systematically been enabled in Debian only recently. And then disabled again, it's a bit of a mess. The current gdb binary was clearly built before that mess. Samuel