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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2007 12:30:13 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
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:  <86wsz2tqoa.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20070520214222.L44264@volatile.chemikals.org> (Wes Morgan's message of "Sun\, 20 May 2007 21\:43\:31 -0400 \(EDT\)")
References:  <200705201954.00476.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> <868xbjib8t.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200705202130.55833.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> <20070520184710.75db1335@kan.dnsalias.net> <20070520210704.H33354@volatile.chemikals.org> <20070521012910.GA46689@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070521013910.GA46734@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070520214222.L44264@volatile.chemikals.org>

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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?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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