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Re: -static-pie and -static -pie
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: lists at coryfields dot com
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:35:29 -0800
- Subject: Re: -static-pie and -static -pie
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Cory Fields <lists@coryfields.com> wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I'm playing with -static-pie and musl, which seems to be in good shape
> for 8.0.0. Nice work :)
>
> However, the fact that "gcc -static -pie" and "gcc -static-pie"
> produce different results is very unexpected. I understand the case
> for the new link-type, but merging the options when possible would be
> a huge benefit to existing buildsystems that already cope with both
> individually.
>
> My use-case:
> I'd like to build with --enable-default-pie, and by adding "-static"
Why not adding "-static-pie" instead of "-static"?
> to my builds, produce static-pie binaries. But at the moment, that
> attempts to add an interp section.
>
> So my question is, if no conflicting options are found, why not hoist
> "-static -pie" to "-static-pie" ?
>
> Regards,
> Cory
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H.J.