Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:48:08PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
>> any word on this patch? I think I only need approval for the gcc.c
>
> I'm not a maintainer of gcc.c, and I think it is a bad idea.
> PIE is just a (slightly) more secure form of an executable, therefore
> if a target doesn't support position independent executables, linking
> it as normal executable is IMHO just fine.
Joseph, as driver maintainer, what's your take on this?
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-06/msg00373.html
If the gcc.c change is unacceptable, I'll change the pie
effective-target keyword to just check for darwin9+ and linux instead.
Thanks.
Rainer
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