heap-randomization

Windows 7 has Heap randomization and Stack randomization features. How could I manage it? How they are affects performance of my application? Where I could find more information on how it works? I'm using Visual Studio 2008 for developing C++ programs. I can't find any compiler's options for that features. Ok, Heap randomization and Stack randomization are Windows features, but have to be explicitly enabled for each process at link time. Mark Russinovich described how it is work in his 5-th Windows Internals book. Stack randomization consists of first selecting one of 32 possible stack

I'm working on a runtime system for parallel programs that can take advantage of a common address space layout across multiple processes, potentially spread over several (thousand) nodes. Many times, software built for this environment is run on Linux systems that have address space randomization enabled by default, and users may not want or be able to disable it system-wide (via sysctl -w kernel.randomize_va_space=0 and the like). This imposes some limitations on the parallel programs, and can hurt performance. Thus, we want to figure out how to disable it for the binaries that we build.