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On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:58:42PM -0500, Matthias Maier wrote |
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> This is a reworded news item (assuming we proceed with the plan to |
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> default-enable USE=pie). Suggestions for improving the emerge command to |
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> fix static archives is highly welcomed. |
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> Matthias |
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> Title: GCC 6 defaults to USE="pie ssp" |
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> Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2017-05-09 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0 |
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> In Gentoo, several GCC features can be default disabled or enabled |
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> via use-flags of sys-devel/gcc. Starting with gcc-4.8.3 we have already |
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> enabled default SSP [1]. Since the PIE patchset for default position |
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> independent executable support was integrated upstream [2,3], starting |
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> with gcc-6.3 we are also enabling PIE by default (via a default-enabled |
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> use-flag pie) in regular (non-hardened) profiles. |
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Has anyone checked 32-bit systems? "emerge -pv =sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0" |
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on a 2008 Core2duo 32-bit install (my GCC 6.3.0 testbed) shows "(-pie)". |
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I read that as the "pie" USE flag being hard-masked out. On my 64-bit |
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desktop, "pie" is the default. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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