On Tuesday 03 June 2008 18:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Can you chime me in how to build PIE / how it is different from normal > > executable? I guess there are some restrictions and things to do (e.g. have > > to pass -fPIE to gcc)? -- > > afaik (solar can correct me), just compile all objects with -fPIE and link > with -pie > > a quick test is (1) it still executes ;) and (2) running `file` on the ELF > should declare it as a shared object rather than executable
Thanks. Just committed CONFIG_PIE option. The help text is just a placeholder for now: "TODO: what is it and why/when is it useful?" Can you elaborate when it is useful? And when it is definitely not useful, so that people won't select it needlessly? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
