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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with things like -fpie in CFLAGS in environment?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:36:56
Message-Id: 200504151636.48647.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with things like -fpie in CFLAGS in environment? by Vibhav Garg
1 On Friday 15 April 2005 04:13 pm, Vibhav Garg wrote:
2 > Sorry for the dumb question but was do -fpie and -fno-pie do?
3
4 yeah you should be sorry !
5
6 seriously though, PIE stands for Position Independent Executables and -fpie /
7 -fno-pie controls whether the toolchain produces PIE (mmm PIE)
8
9 for something less vague, try this page:
10 http://hardened.gentoo.org/pie-ssp.xml
11 -mike
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