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On Sunday 27 February 2011 10.11.58 Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:20:57 +0100 |
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> klondike <franxisco1988@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > 2011/2/27 Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>: |
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> > > On 26/02/2011 18:01, Magnus Granberg wrote: |
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> > >> If you have read the last meeting we will be removing the pic use flag |
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> > >> as default on in the hardened amd64 profile. We will start with the |
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> > >> changes when |
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> > >> the new structure to the profiles have settled down. |
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> > > |
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> > > Hi, any chance of a bit of background on this change? ie the "why" and |
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> > > some of the implications? |
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Most of the asm code is in libs and on amd64 it need to be PIC friendly from |
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the start. We don't need to disable asm code. We do that most times with the |
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pic use flag on hardened profile. |
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/Magnus |
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> > |
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> > Summing it up a lot, amd64 usually needs not special asm code for PIC |
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> > due to the way the ABI is defined (which means being PIC by default |
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> > usually). |
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> You summed it up too much. Why does this need to change? |
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