Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > what the heck is PIE?
Dan Ritter and others wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code It seems to have caused only moderate trouble. Insofar it did not cause such a spectacular echo as other novelties and strategic decisions. 慕 冬亮 <mudonglianga...@hotmail.com> wrote: > why does Debian enable PIE by default, other > than stack protector and FORTIFY_SOURCE that are already enabled by > default in the Ubuntu distribution? All i know is what i learned during research for the question a few days ago, why Debian 9 was slower than Debian 8: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg00051.html (It would be nice to learn if any new insight came to Alexandru Iancu.) If there remain particular technical questions after following all links and some sub-links of https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition i would possibly ask on debian-devel mailing list, whether there is more info available about the motivation and constraints of Debian's decision. Have a nice day :) Thomas
