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Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:26:37 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, jjohnstn@redhat.com
>
> > Also, by "such libraries must first support their execution", do you
> > mean the libraries should support PIE programs? If so, I think saying
> > that would make this a lot clearer.
>
> No...
> $ /lib64/libc.so.6
> GNU C Library stable release version 2.11.1, by Roland McGrath et al.
> [...]
> vs.
> $ /lib64/libz.so.1
> Segmentation fault
>
> One can debug now the former but debugging the latter is not much productive.
>
> A more clear wording is welcome, I tried.
"although for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
executable program", I think.