RFC: Add --enable-static-pie to build static executables as PIE
Szabolcs Nagy
szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Tue Jul 18 15:21:00 GMT 2017
On 18/07/17 14:48, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 05:30:48AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Linker needs to support --no-dynamic-linker.
>
> Is there really much to be gained from PIEs that don't use ld.so
> versus those that do?
>
in glibc ld.so in principle only works with one particular
version of glibc, you cannot move a static linked pie binary
to another system if it has ld.so dependency.
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