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From Magnus Hagander
Subject pgsql: Disable RandomizedBaseAddress on MSVC builds
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Msg-id E1WFl9C-0007tc-DF@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Disable RandomizedBaseAddress on MSVC builds

The ASLR in Windows 8/Windows 2012 can break PostgreSQL's shared memory. It
doesn't fail every time (which is explained by the Random part in ASLR), but
can fail with errors abut failing to reserve shared memory region.

MauMau, reviewed by Craig Ringer

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master

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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7f3e17b4827b61ad84e0774e3e43da4c57c4487f

Modified Files
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src/tools/msvc/MSBuildProject.pm |    1 +
src/tools/msvc/VCBuildProject.pm |    1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

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