Re: When did Debian decide to enable PIE by default?
On Wednesday 09 August 2017 12:43:14 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > what the heck is PIE?
>
> Dan Ritter and others wrote:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code
>
> It seems to have caused only moderate trouble.
> Insofar it did not cause such a spectacular echo as other novelties
> and strategic decisions.
>
> 慕 冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > why does Debian enable PIE by default, other
> > than stack protector and FORTIFY_SOURCE that are already enabled by
> > default in the Ubuntu distribution?
>
> All i know is what i learned during research for the question a few
> days ago, why Debian 9 was slower than Debian 8:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg00051.html
> (It would be nice to learn if any new insight came to Alexandru
> Iancu.)
>
> If there remain particular technical questions after following all
> links and some sub-links of
> https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition
> i would possibly ask on debian-devel mailing list, whether there is
> more info available about the motivation and constraints of Debian's
> decision.
>
It is NOT a new invention by any means. Motorola's micro-processor in the
first TRS-80 Color Computer, the MC6809E in the early 1980's was built
with that in mind. And I've been writing assembly code that used it
ever since.
So its only new to the wintel scene. :) I assume moto's patents had to
expire before anybody else could use it. Although, moto did allow
Hitachi to "clone it' in cmos, but Hitachi had to promise to never, ever
admit it was anything but a clone. But Hitachi had some pretty clever
people, so the various nooks and cranny's in the instruction map that
were blank in the motorola version, were filled in, making it
considerably more orthogonal, and despite having an 8 bit data bus,
actually has some 32 bit operations, like a 16 bit into 32 bit divide in
39 clocks maximum. Or a 16x16 bit mull in 25 clocks. Taking full
advantage of all that, the formerly called os9 operating system, now
community maintained as Nitros9, is about 150% faster at the same clock
speed as that same socket was driven at in the 1983 or 84 time frame. I
had a hand in converting one of its code modules myself.
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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