Adding static-PIE support to binutils

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 03:01:20PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > If a new option is added, of course it needs documenting in the ld manual 
> > (ld.texinfo).
> 
> I can do that and resubmit the patch, but is there consensus that
> adding a new option is appropriate? Like I said before I mildly lean
> that way because it's more flexible.

I have no views on whether a new option is appropriate (I agree with the 
high-level principle of supporting static PIEs).

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Joseph S. Myers
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