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<para>In the 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
These techniques can mitigate some malicious attacks, but they do not provide
- perfect security. If you are reading LFS and a programming textbook,
+ perfect security. Note that some textbooks assume these options are
+ disabled, so that if you run examples from such a textbook on an LFS system,
you may need to disable PIE and SSP with the GCC options
- <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>,
- because some textbooks assume these options are disabled by default.</para>
+ <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>.</para>
<para>Here is a list of the packages updated since the previous
release of LFS.</para>