Charles Collicutt wrote: > On 14 June 2017 at 17:34, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > > > gcc -static -nopie -o foo foo.c > > > > That works, thank you. gcc-local(1) only mentions -nopie as an option for > the linker, so I thought it ought to be passed with -Wl,... > > So passing -nopie to gcc both causes it to link against the correct crt0 > and also passes -nopie to the linker? And passing -nopie to the linker > disables PIE generation but doesn't affect which crt0 it uses?
I think I would interpret that sentence to mean linker as in the gcc invoked to link stuff. gcc -c is the compiler, gcc is the linker...
