Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> writes: > Here is where philosophy matters. Yes, bindnow and pie can cause > problems or slowdowns in certain (fortunately rare) cases. Now, even > though that is possible, that fact should not have any relevance on the > choices for the defaults: on noticing that the flags have caused a > problem, they can simply be disabled.
> For xorg, -pie,-bindnow certainly makes sense, but for the vast majority > of other packages +all would be a far better default. +pie causes a fairly ordinary regular binary (gnubg) to die with a bus error immediately upon execution. If someone could figure out why and whether it's a general class of problems or something peculiar to that code, I'd be feeling more optimistic about enabling PIE more broadly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwcfbru4....@windlord.stanford.edu
