[guardian-dev] Native binaries in Android L: PIE!

[Josh Steiner]

Ug, lots of rumors that L might be launching as early as this week.  -j

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I saw that in the NDK.  Its bad.  We'll have to ship two versions of all
> native binaries, since PIE support is pretty new in Android.
>
> .hc
>
> Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> Seems like we need to review all our cross-compiling code...
>>
>> "While using native executables in our existing Android apps we observed
>> that those executables were no more working with Android L. We came to
>> know that Android has introduced one more security feature starting from
>> Android L i.e
>> Executable must be PIE (Position independent executable)."
>>
>> http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/08/19/compiling-native-libraries-for-android-l/
>>
>
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