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Subject: svn commit: r44458 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
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Author: pgj
Date: Sun Apr 6 09:30:49 2014
New Revision: 44458
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44458
Log:
- Update the text for the ASLR report
Submitted by: Shawn Webb
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Sun Apr 6 09:27:06 2014 (r44457)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Sun Apr 6 09:30:49 2014 (r44458)
@@ -812,12 +812,14 @@
including the base of the executable and the positions of the
stack, heap, and libraries, in a process' address space.
- We have added (a potentially buggy) ASLR support to all
- supported &os; architectures. Focus is still on amd64 as
- that is what the developers have access to. We have added
- support for Position-Independent Executables (PIEs) in a number
- of applications in base. We have identified a number of bugs
- and are actively working on targeting them.
+ We have added ASLR support to all architectures. As the
+ primary developers behind this feature have the most access to
+ amd64, the focus of development is on the
+ amd64 architecture. Other architectures, such as ARM,
+ have known bugs with our current ASLR implementation and we are
+ working hard to fix them. We added support for
+ Position-Independent Executables (PIEs) in a number of
+ applications in base.