[PATCH] D14218: [ELF2] Implements -z relro: create an ELF "PT_GNU_RELRO" segment header in the object.

George Rimar via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Nov 10 08:18:18 PST 2015


grimar added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D14218#285384, @ruiu wrote:

> This is probably naive but obligatory question. Is relro segments considered actually useful? How many projects are using this for what?


For me it looks like its extremely useful for security. List of projects can be found here for example:
http://tk-blog.blogspot.ru/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html


http://reviews.llvm.org/D14218





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