Yes it should be disabled by default for all systems. It is this was on MacOSX by default. The linux plug-in will need to be fixed.
> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Todd Fiala <todd.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [I'm not seeing this show up in the archives two hours after I posted it from > my google account, so I'm sending it from my gmail account. Pardon if this > shows up again in the next 24 hours from my @google.com account...] > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Todd Fiala <tfi...@google.com> > Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:29 AM > Subject: ASLR disabled by default - thoughts? > To: "lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu" <lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu> > > > Hey all, > > Regarding this bug: > http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20658 > > We've been discussing the idea of having ASLR disabled by default when > launching processes within lldb. Currently it looks like the default > behavior is to have it enabled, and require explicitly disabling to get that > behavior for the process. > > It seems like it might make more sense to have it disabled by default - that > way code references would likely be static across debugger runs, which seems > to be more what we want when tracking down issues across code runs. > > Any thoughts on this? > > The counterargument I could make for changing it would be (aside from legacy > compatibility issues perhaps on the MacOSX/iOS side) - taking the exe out of > its native state on the OS. If a bug is ASLR sensitive, the user might miss > it. And so behavior in the debugger could differ from the exe in its native > state. Not sure how relevant that is for the majority of usages, though. > > I'll be fixing the fact that Linux is ignoring this altogether. But while > I'm in there, I could flip the default if we wanted to do it. If not > globally, we'd probably pursue defaulting it on Linux (and Ed seems to like > it for FreeBSD as well, so maybe for not Apple in that case?) > -- > Todd Fiala | Software Engineer | tfi...@google.com | 650-943-3180 > -- > -Todd > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
