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. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
