On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:56 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Magnus Granberg <zo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> fredag 09 januari 2015 13.00.14 skrev Daniel Micay:
>>> On 09/01/15 12:49 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Daniel Micay wrote:
>>> >>> --with-specs="%{pie|fpic|fPIC|fpie|fPIE|fno-pic|fno-PIC|fno-pie|fno-PIE|
>>> >>> shared|static|nostdlib|nodefaultlibs|nostartfiles:;:-fPIE -pie}"
>>> >>>
>>> >>> at configure time (using CONFIGURE_SPECS).
>> DRIVER_SELF_SPECS is checkt before CONFIGURE_SPECS. On mips it will have
>> added
>> -mno-shared before it check CONFIGURE_SPECS. I want to support more targets
>> later on. Can move the spec to elfos.h.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I have no idea if the above is really the proper spec to use - why
>>> >>> do you include static, nostdlib, nodefaultlibs and nostartfiles
>>> >>> for example? Similar, if I say
>>> >>
>>> >> PIE isn't supported for static executables by binutils, etc. so it
>>> >> does need to exclude that. The checks for nostdlib, nodefaultlibs
>>> >
>>> > Well - that would indicate excluding -pie if one of the link-time options
>>> > conflicting with it is used, -fPIE if one of the compile-time options
>>> > conflicting with it is used. That way, "gcc -static file.c" would still
>>> > have the same effect as "gcc -c file.c; gcc -static file.o" (building a
>>> > PIE object, linking it into a non-PIE static executable), which makes
>>> > logical sense to me (although there may be no great benefit either way).
>>>
>>> Sure, I agree. It should have separate lists of exceptions for both of
>>> these.
>> I can separete it to compile and linke sections and remove the nostdlib,
>> nodefaultlibs and nostartfiles. But how do we not pass -pie to the linker
>> when
>> we don't pass static or shared and don't link it with -pie? For only the gold
>> linker support -no-pie.
>>
>> /Magnus G.
>>
>>
>
> Please try hjl/pie branch:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=summary
>
> and let know if it works for you.
>
I updated the branch with some fixes.
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H.J.
