>From what I can tell here, pic is nearly built in to amd64. It should be used by default on amd64 and I think it has to be explicitly disabled (ffmpeg). So, you can run -pic on all amd64 and get nearly the same result as +pic on amd64.
-- Prometheanfire On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:39, Daniel Reidy <dub...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:58 PM, <pagee...@freemail.hu> wrote: >> that's actually not the intended use of the PIC USE flag, we wanted it >> originally >> to enable configuring/compiling position independent code for packages where >> one >> wanted to make a tradeoff between speed/security (i think php was one such >> app, >> even without any hand written asm code). >> >> so with USE=pic you were supposed to get a textrel free, but potentially >> slower >> binary (partly because of the PIC overhead on i386 and partly because >> sometimes >> it meant using the C implementation of some algo instead of hand written >> asm). > > So if I understand this correctly, we should now be turning off PIC on > Gentoo-Hardened systems running on AMD64. What about the non-hardened > variety, such as my desktop, that is only running a "stock" version of > Gentoo Sources without hardened features? > > -dan > >
