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- Update the text for the ASLR report

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Submitted by:	Shawn Webb <lattera@gmail.com>
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including the base of the executable and the positions of the
stack, heap, and libraries, in a process' address space.</p>
<p>We have added (a potentially buggy) ASLR support to all
supported &os; architectures. Focus is still on <tt>amd64</tt> as
that is what the developers have access to. We have added
support for Position-Independent Executables (PIEs) in a number
of applications in base. We have identified a number of bugs
and are actively working on targeting them.</p>
<p>We have added ASLR support to all architectures. As the
primary developers behind this feature have the most access to
<tt>amd64</tt>, the focus of development is on the
<tt>amd64</tt> architecture. Other architectures, such as ARM,
have known bugs with our current ASLR implementation and we are
working hard to fix them. We added support for
Position-Independent Executables (PIEs) in a number of
applications in base.</p>
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