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Stack (∞)

Aggressive randomisation of the stack location

Since 7.3 (03/19/2023), this will put the stack at a random location in the upper 1/4th of the userland virtual address space providing up to 26 additional bits of randomness in the address.

This aggressive randomisation of the stack location is for all 64-bit architectures except alpha.

This should make it harder for an attacker to find the stack.


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