[lldb-dev] ASLR disabled by default - thoughts?

[Chandler Carruth]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> Correct, AFAIK the only way to disable ASLR in Windows is:
>
> a) Editing a registry setting which will require a reboot and be
> system-wide
> b) Compiling your executable with a specific flag which has been set to
> enable ASLR by default since VS 2012.
> c) Using the EMET utility <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544>
> (untested, but I guess should work).  Regardless, it's a manual step and
> would require elevation (aka sudo)
>
> Maybe it's just because I'm used to an environment where ASLR is per-boot,
> but what are the issues with debugging when ASLR is enabled?  Source/line
> breakpoints can just be resolved every time you debug.  Same with symbol
> breakpoints.  Even absolute address breakpoints can be translated to
> Module+offset and persist across ASLR.  The only things I can think of off
> the top of my head are hardware data breakpoints, and printing addresses to
> log files.  Is there other stuff that is complicated by ASLR?
>

Watchpoints on heap-allocated memory (whether software or hardware).
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