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In the rush to get the Windows builds working correctly, we may have disabled hardening options that we shouldn't have. I experienced crashes on Windows 7 with a few options as well. We should get to the bottom of those issues and if they persist, we should ping the mingw-w64 people and find out what the issue is.

Here's a set of tools for Windows to validate hardening: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11910 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29851

Here's one for Linux: http://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.html

Here's some random documentation: http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13276692/safeseh-gs-on-g https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15290