On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:58:42PM -0500, Matthias Maier wrote > This is a reworded news item (assuming we proceed with the plan to > default-enable USE=pie). Suggestions for improving the emerge command to > fix static archives is highly welcomed. > > Matthias > > > > Title: GCC 6 defaults to USE="pie ssp" > Author: Matthias Maier <tam...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2017-05-09 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0 > > In Gentoo, several GCC features can be default disabled or enabled > via use-flags of sys-devel/gcc. Starting with gcc-4.8.3 we have already > enabled default SSP [1]. Since the PIE patchset for default position > independent executable support was integrated upstream [2,3], starting > with gcc-6.3 we are also enabling PIE by default (via a default-enabled > use-flag pie) in regular (non-hardened) profiles.
Has anyone checked 32-bit systems? "emerge -pv =sys-devel/gcc-6.3.0" on a 2008 Core2duo 32-bit install (my GCC 6.3.0 testbed) shows "(-pie)". I read that as the "pie" USE flag being hard-masked out. On my 64-bit desktop, "pie" is the default. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
