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Re: [PATCH] add support for high entropy ASLR on Windows

From: Nicholas Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:12:58 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add support for high entropy ASLR on Windows
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References: <1408486024-11778-1-git-send-email-danielmicay at gmail dot com>

Hi Daniel,

Enabling the HIGH_ENTROPY_VA flag allows the operating system to use
addresses outside of the 32-bit range before memory exhaustion. This
results in a higher entropy implementation of ASLR when used with the
DYNAMIC_BASE flag.


Approved and applied.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- [PATCH] add support for high entropy ASLR on Windows
  - From: Daniel Micay

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