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Hi, |
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One of the differences between gentoo standard and hardened profiles is |
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the pic use flag. |
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I wonder what it does and if it has any meaning these days. From what I |
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understand in any modern-day Linux system position independent code |
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(pic) is always used, as we have ASLR and pie executables (in Gentoo |
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since 17.0 profiles). |
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In many cases it seems to disable assembly optimizations, often with |
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comments indicating that the assembly is not "pic friendly" (e.g. gzip |
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useflag description says "disable optimized assembly code that is not |
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PIC friendly"). |
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If the flag just disables assembly optimizations then I wonder if it |
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should be renamed (or if we need it at all - in case these assembly |
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optimizations have no downsides). |
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-- |
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Hanno Böck |
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https://hboeck.de/ |
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mail/jabber: hanno@××××××.de |
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