Heads Up: i386 moves to PIE

Contributed by tbert on 2013-12-29 from the cake-is-a-lie dept.

Following up on the commit that enabled the change, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) wrote in to tech@ with a note concerning care to be taken during upgrades now that i386 runs PIE executables.

From: Theo de Raadt 
To: tech@cvs.openbsd.org
Subject: i386 switched to PIE

The i386 architecture has now been switched to PIE.  There is a small
performance hit, but this part of ASLR is valuable combined with
W^X and the stack protector.

This is a non-trivial upgrade, so please be careful.  Check the FAQ
for details or use a snapshot.

As it says in the commit message, special steps are required for upgrading from source, so check the instructions for doing so, if not upgrading via snapshots.

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