Stig Bjørlykke wrote: > Hi, > > Can we build Wireshark and friends as Position-independent executables (PIE)? > The attached patch seems to do this. Any objections against this patch? > > > >
I've no experience with Position-independent executables; A quick search does suggest that there's a performance hit (every time the program is loaded into memory ??). For example: From: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/execshield/ "Position independent code has a performance overhead on most architectures (x86-64 is the exception to this). For this reason, neither Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® nor Fedora™ Core have the entire distribution compiled as a PIE binary. Only selected, security sensitive programs are compiled as PIEs. " Thoughts ?? ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
