What is -fPIE (GCC) good for?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer at omnisec.de> writes:
> a quick search told me that pie means Posix Independant Executable.

No, it means "position-independent executable".  It is necessary on
platforms which don't have separate page tables for each process, and
therefore can't load each executable at a fixed address in its own
address space.

DES
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