GNU bug report logs - #23529
Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:20:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Merged with 13964

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:04:31 +0300

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:55:42 +0000
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  IMHO, a saner compile cycle & the ability to play nice with modern
>  systems (ASLR, containers) largely outweights the loss of this
>  feature.
> 
> I agree. 

Why not look for ways of having the cake and eating it, too?  There's
no reason to believe there couldn't be a way to play nice with modern
systems without losing any existing feature.  After all, what we dump
is just data, we just cannot safely write it into the executable file.
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