On 26 Feb 2021, at 03:22, Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 19:23, John Kennedy <warl...@phouka.net> wrote: >> >> Not sure if Ed Maste just wants to make sure that all the executables >> are rebuilt as PIE (vs hit-and-miss) or there is a sneaker corner-case that >> he knows about. > > The issue is that without a clean build you may have some .o files > left around that are built without PIE enabled (i.e., compiled without > -fPIE), and attempting to link them into a PIE executable will fail
Hmm, maybe it is time for a ".pieo" extension? (I disliked .pico at first, but now I see the sense in it; might as well make clear that plain ".o" is meant for 'static' object files.) -Dimitry
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