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Re: Adding static-PIE support to binutils
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:00:01 +0000
- Subject: Re: Adding static-PIE support to binutils
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 03:01:20PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > If a new option is added, of course it needs documenting in the ld manual
> > (ld.texinfo).
>
> I can do that and resubmit the patch, but is there consensus that
> adding a new option is appropriate? Like I said before I mildly lean
> that way because it's more flexible.
I have no views on whether a new option is appropriate (I agree with the
high-level principle of supporting static PIEs).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com