Re: What is -fPIE (GCC) good for?

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:40:11 +0200
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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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Mon May 21 2007 - 11:40:16 UTC

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