Previously you had to opt in to allowing the linker to use ASLR. Now, you have to opt out: /DYNAMICBASE[:NO] (Visual Studio 2012: Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Advanced -> “Randomized Base Address”) You can also do it programmatically.
On Ubuntu , it can be disabled with… echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space On Windows, this post might be of some help… Quickpost: Another Funny Vista Trick with ASLR
PIE is to support address space layout randomization (ASLR) in executable files. Before the PIE mode was created, the program’s executable could not be placed at a random address in memory, only position independent code (PIC) dynamic libraries could be relocated to a random offset. It works very much like what PIC does for dynamic … Read more