[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Wed Oct 26 09:48:39 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 22:43 +0100, Nix wrote:

> (This is just one of the reasons why I prefer *not* to use precompiled
> binaries. I'm wondering about the feasibility of adding random
> perturbations to stack frames as well, done with zero overhead by a
> suitable rand() call in GCC... hm, I shall have to hack that up.)
> 
Isn't that essentially what PIE and PIC do? Which I think Fedora and
others turn on by default these days.

Huw


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