* Samuel Thibault: > Is it not possible to make -static -pie get the same behavior? That'd be > way more orthogonal for people to understand.
I think you want -static to mean -static-pie if GCC defaults to PIE, right? That will break a few things that use gcc -static to build binaries for quasi-bare-metal targets using the GNU ELF toolchain (where glibc's startup code is not use). Overall it might still be the better trade-off. Thanks, Florian