Re: Keep MLton from being kicked out of Debian?

So address space randomization for code I guess.

Thanks

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some added security. If you don't know where objects are located, it's
> harder to write exploit code.
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Henry Cejtin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm curious, what is the reason for position indep. code by default in
>> Debian now?
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> * Matthew Fluet:
>>>
>>>> And, this is where I haven't figured out what Debian is trying to
>>>> achieve.  Is the PIC/PIE default gcc just during package building (so
>>>> that executables within .deb packages are PIE), or is it also the
>>>> behavior of an installed Debian system, so that a normal user invoking
>>>> gcc will get the PIC/PIE default?
>>>
>>> It's the latter.  GCC says:
>>>
>>> Configured with: […] --enable-default-pie […]
>>>
>>> I have verified that just running gcc with no flags produces a PIE.
>>>
>>>> If the behavior of an installed Debian system is not to have a
>>>> PIC/PIE default gcc, then you will end up with the awkward situation
>>>> where MLton will (unnecessarily) generate PIC code, although I don't
>>>> think it a problem if PIC object is linked with non-PIC objects into
>>>> a non-PIE executable.
>>>
>>> No, it's going to work just fine.  It's slightly slower than
>>> necessary, but especially on amd64, the difference is minimal.
>>>
>>> So I think it would be fine to generate PIC code unconditionally on
>>> Debian.
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