Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 15:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe we're talking past each other. What I thought you meant was
>> adding this #define unconditionally, without any awareness of what it
>> might do on particular platforms. If you are thinking of adding it
>> only on platforms where it is considered standard, I can live with
>> that.
> I had suggested to put it into src/include/port/linux.h
OK, that's probably reasonable.
>> Another point to consider here is that (at least on Red Hat) I believe
>> this enables address-space randomization; which is something I very
>> much do not want to happen in debug builds.
> I doubt that a preprocessor symbol has anything to do with address-space
> randomization. You are probably thinking of some other option that
> comes in with the hardening/security flags.
[ pokes around... ] You're right, I was confusing this with
"_hardened_build".
regards, tom lane
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