"Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Rainer Orth wrote:
>
>> Jakub Jelinek <ja...@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.
>>
>> Joseph, as driver maintainer, what's your take on this?
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-06/msg00373.html
>>
>> If the gcc.c change is unacceptable, I'll change the pie
>> effective-target keyword to just check for darwin9+ and linux instead.
>
> I think we should leave gcc.c as-is here, treating -pie as a non-semantic
> option.
Ok, I've comitted that patch as follows, after running the appropriate
runtest invocation on powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0 and i386-pc-solaris2.10.
I've omitted adding -pie in gcc.dg/pie-link.c for now.
Rainer
2011-06-04 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
gcc:
* doc/sourcebuild.texi (Effective-Target Keywords, pie): Document it.
gcc/testsuite:
* lib/target-supports.exp (check_effective_target_pie): New proc.
* gcc.dg/pie-link.c: Use target pie.
Index: gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi
===================================================================
--- gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi (revision 174908)
+++ gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi (working copy)
@@ -1787,6 +1787,9 @@
@item pe_aligned_commons
Target supports @option{-mpe-aligned-commons}.
+@item pie
+Target supports @option{-pie}, @option{-fpie} and @option{-fPIE}.
+
@item section_anchors
Target supports section anchors.
Index: gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
===================================================================
--- gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp (revision 174908)
+++ gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp (working copy)
@@ -788,6 +788,16 @@
return 0
}
+# Return 1 if -pie, -fpie and -fPIE are supported, 0 otherwise.
+
+proc check_effective_target_pie { } {
+ if { [istarget *-*-darwin\[912\]*]
+ || [istarget *-*-linux*] } {
+ return 1;
+ }
+ return 0
+}
+
# Return true if the target supports -mpaired-single (as used on MIPS).
proc check_effective_target_mpaired_single { } {
Index: gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pie-link.c
===================================================================
--- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pie-link.c (revision 174908)
+++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pie-link.c (working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* { dg-do link { target *-*-darwin[912]* *-*-linux* } } */
+/* { dg-do link { target pie } } */
/* { dg-options "-fpie" } */
int main(void)
--
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
