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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2007 09:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: strange "Exec format error" (gcc4.2 suspicious)
Message-ID:  <20070521090426.O44264@volatile.chemikals.org>
In-Reply-To: <86wsz2tqoa.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Mon, 21 May 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> writes:
>> I have to ask the stupidly obvious question of why isn't the compiler
>> smart enough to realize (or forcefully taught) that our platform
>> doesn't support this?
>
> Looking at it from the opposite perspective, how much work would it be
> to teach ld-elf.so to support PIE?

Not that I don't agree with you, but probably much less time than the two 
commits to disable and re-enable support and prevent noise on other lists. 
:)


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