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Re: [Xen-devel] -fpie or ssp (IBM stack hardening)

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B.G. Bruce wrote:
> Has anyone looked into how compatible XEN is with pie (-fpie) or ssp?

>From memory (it has been a while since I have tried due to xorg issues)
Xen itself _will_ compile and run with ssp and pie. However the kernel
will not (this is a standard kernel 'feature' - as mentioned previously
on this list it is probably better that it doesn't).

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