Bearing in mind the strict adherence to DO-178B, is there any value in these compiler security options? Does my 64-bit build otherwise improve performance over the official Linux binary? $ for x in sqlite3 sqlite3.i386; do ll $x; hardening-check $x; done -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1954360 Jul 13 13:47 sqlite3 sqlite3: Position Independent Executable: yes Stack protected: yes Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found) Read-only relocations: yes Immediate binding: yes -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1169124 Jul 6 13:53 sqlite3.i386 sqlite3.i386: Position Independent Executable: no, normal executable! Stack protected: no, not found! Fortify Source functions: no, only unprotected functions found! Read-only relocations: no, not found! Immediate binding: no, not found! $ file sqlite3 sqlite3.i386 sqlite3: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=90c166105dd34b2bd78eb3eb36622c01f855df8b, not stripped sqlite3.i386: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 4.3.0, stripped $ cat sqlite-autoconf-3360000.configure CFLAGS='-O3 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -fpic -pie' \ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -Wl,-z,now' ./configure