Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

Hello,

Please find a new patch (no further changes) rebased on top of the master.

On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 02:02, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 12:44:22PM +0100, Niyas Sait wrote:
> > Microsoft updated documentation [1] and clarified that ASLR cannot be
> > disabled for Arm64 targets.
> >
> > Because ASLR can't be disabled on ARM, ARM64, or ARM64EC architectures,
> > > /DYNAMICBASE:NO isn't supported for these targets.
>
> Better than nothing, I guess, though this does not stand as a reason
> explaining why this choice has been made.  And it looks like we will
> never know.  We are going to need more advanced testing to check that
> DYNAMICBASE is stable enough if we begin to enable it.  Perhaps we
> should really look at that for all the build targets we currently
> support rather than just ARM, for the most modern Win32 environments
> if we are going to cut support for most of the oldest releases..
> --
> Michael
>


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