pie stuff

[Stan Shebs]

Elena Zannoni wrote:

>Stan Shebs writes:
> > Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > 
> > >A heads up, I am going to start committing pie support to my old
> > >branch (which I am bringing up to date) in a few hours.  I will then
> > >merge it piecemeal to mainline. It's not that much code. More details
> > >later.
> > >
> > I must not have gotten the memo - what's pie? (yeah, yeah, filled pastry
> > that one eats :-) )
> > 
> > Stan
>
>exactly, next will be gdb brewing your own tea. Tea, earl grey,
>hot. An appetizing combinations. And who says we never think about the
>comfort of the poor users?
>
>
And not even implausible! GDB could inject itself into the embedded
systems that are in modern coffeemakers, through the stub into
flash memory. Why run an *inferior* process when you can replace
it with a *superior* debugger?

>It's position independent executables. Your main exec is just like a
>shared library. Every time you run it you get a different start
>address. Not fun, I can tell you. gcc -fpie -pie -g -o blah blah.c
>
Heh heh, reminiscent of AIX hell...

Stan