Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:40:11 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is -fPIE (GCC) good for? Message-ID: <86veems3b8.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200705211441.23211.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> (Harald Schmalzbauer's message of "Mon\, 21 May 2007 14\:41\:22 %2B0200") References: <200705201954.00476.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> <200705202130.55833.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> <20070520184710.75db1335@kan.dnsalias.net> <200705211441.23211.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de>
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Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> writes: > a quick search told me that pie means Posix Independant Executable. No, it means "position-independent executable". It is necessary on platforms which don't have separate page tables for each process, and therefore can't load each executable at a fixed address in its own address space. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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