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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:08:06 +0300
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Build *-user targets as PIE
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Cc: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@trasno.org>

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Paul Brook<paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> Now we can drop link hack for i386 and fix text relocations on i386 host=
.
>>
>> v2:
>> =C2=A0 - Add configure options do enable/disable PIE for usermode target=
s.
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Disabling can be useful if you build uswing toolchain whic=
h has
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 broken PIE support. PIE for usermode targets enabled by de=
fault.
>
> This isn't as useful as you might think.
>
> How do you stop the host dynamic linker loading qemu where the guest
> application expects to be loaded?

At least it not worse that it was. For kernel qemu with the linking hack lo=
oks
like PIE and it can load it at random address, doesn't it?

P.S. I press "reply" instead "reply all" first time.