HEADS-UP: PIE enabled by default on main

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 26 02:04:04 UTC 2021


On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 18:10, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> This details worries me.  How compatible are PIE executables with
> non-PIE executables?  Can I run PIE executables on older systems?  Can
> I run older executables on a PIE system?

There is no issue mixing PIE and non-PIE binaries, and they introduce
no additional constraints on running on older kernels.


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