Subject: Re: -fno-PIE, take #3
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
        x86@kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>,
        "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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On 11/04/16 11:39, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Debian gcc's is nowdays compiled with --enable-default-pie which means it does
> -fPIE by default. This breaks atleast x86-64 compiles.
> This is the third attempt to fix it, this time by using runtime detection of
> the -fno-PIE compiler switch (it was introduced in gcc 3.4, min required gcc is
> currently 3.2) so it can be backported to the stable kernels.
> As noted by Al this won't fix `git bisect' of stable kernels prio this commit.
> However using always a wrapper around gcc which adds -fno-PIE is not sollution
> I want to rely in future.
> 
> Sebastian
> 

We don't support gcc < 3.4 on x86 platforms; I'm pretty sure it is broken.

	-hpa