Re: PIE and FSF gcc

2011-06-19 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 06/19/2011 04:26 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Jack Howarth writes: > >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:30:43AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> >>> For PCH what matters is not whether gcc defaults to generating PIE, but >>> whether gcc itself is compiled as a PIE. In general I believe that a >

Re: PIE and FSF gcc

2011-06-19 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Jack Howarth writes: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:30:43AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> For PCH what matters is not whether gcc defaults to generating PIE, but >> whether gcc itself is compiled as a PIE. In general I believe that a >> PIE gcc will not support PCH--it will work most of th

Re: PIE and FSF gcc

2011-06-19 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:30:43AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Jack Howarth writes: > > > What is the current state of supporting hardened operating systems > > that default to -fpie/-fPIE/-pie in gcc trunk? Do those releases still use > > their own patches for gcc or has all of those ch

Re: PIE and FSF gcc

2011-06-17 Thread Jack Howarth
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:30:43AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Jack Howarth writes: > > > What is the current state of supporting hardened operating systems > > that default to -fpie/-fPIE/-pie in gcc trunk? Do those releases still use > > their own patches for gcc or has all of those ch

Re: PIE and FSF gcc

2011-06-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Jack Howarth writes: > What is the current state of supporting hardened operating systems > that default to -fpie/-fPIE/-pie in gcc trunk? Do those releases still use > their own patches for gcc or has all of those changes been committed to gcc > trunk? > If so, does anyone recall the specif