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Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org wrote: |
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> Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com> skribis: |
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>> Unfortunately I am not a C programmer and I can't be sure about how |
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>> exactly PIC and prelink work. |
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>> As far as I understood the mechanism (please, correct me if I'm wrong) |
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>> prelink scans the executables to find which libs they load. Then it |
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>> makes cache and when a program is started it uses already pre-loaded |
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>> libs. So the program is ready for action faster. |
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> What you are interested in, probably, is PIE: position-independent |
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> executables. These look like shared libraries but are runnable |
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> programs. These are easy to get using the version 3.4.x compiler and |
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> ‘hardenednossp’ specs. I suspect you will have more fun and fewer |
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> headaches by using the 4.1.x compiler and no prelink. There are |
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> already enough extra headaches in amd64 Gentoo, compared to x86 |
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> Gentoo! :) |
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Yep! gcc -v says: Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.....gcc version 4.1.1 |
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(Gentoo 4.1.1) |
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Are you proposing me to put -fpie in the CFLAGS? |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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