On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I indeed think it's not safe, and it's going to get less and less safe
> on windows (or EXEC_BACKEND). I don't think we can afford to disable
> ASLR in the long run (I indeed supect that'll just be disallowed at some
> point), and that's the only thing making it safe-ish in combination with
> EXEC_BACKEND.
Ugh.
>> If it's not even safe there, then I guess we should remove it entirely
>> as a useless foot-gun.
>
> I indeed think that's the right consequence. One question is what to
> replace it with exactly - are we guaranteed we can dynamically lookup
> symbols by name in the main binary on every platform?
I don't know the answer to that question.
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