Hi, One of the differences between gentoo standard and hardened profiles is the pic use flag.
I wonder what it does and if it has any meaning these days. From what I understand in any modern-day Linux system position independent code (pic) is always used, as we have ASLR and pie executables (in Gentoo since 17.0 profiles). In many cases it seems to disable assembly optimizations, often with comments indicating that the assembly is not "pic friendly" (e.g. gzip useflag description says "disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly"). If the flag just disables assembly optimizations then I wonder if it should be renamed (or if we need it at all - in case these assembly optimizations have no downsides). -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42
