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Re: [testsuite] Run TLS torture tests with -fpic etc.
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@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.
I don't think so: silently ignoring a user-provided option seems like a
bad idea to me. At the very least, there should be a warning.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University