On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:49:21 +1000 Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17/04/12 00:37, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:58:36 +0200 > > Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > > > >> (especially on 32bit). > > > > > > Slightly on 32bit and almost no difference on 64bit. OpenBSD uses PIEs > > everywhere and my x86 users say everythings much quicker than Windows. > > > > Care to define "slightly"... I looked into this when we added some > hardening to our default CFLAGS and the benchmarks I found indicated > that adding PIE to 32bit added a 5-10% performance hit. > > My suggestion would be for maintainers of various applications that > warrant this security (openssh, apache, samba, firefox...) to manually > enable it. We could make PIE the default for x86_64. > > Allan > +1 for the default -fPIE on 64bit. Probably LDFLAGS will also have to be appended with -z,now like they do in ubuntu... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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