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Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de>,
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Subject: Re: strange "Exec format error" (gcc4.2 suspicious)
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Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> writes:
> I have to ask the stupidly obvious question of why isn't the compiler
> smart enough to realize (or forcefully taught) that our platform
> doesn't support this?

Looking at it from the opposite perspective, how much work would it be
to teach ld-elf.so to support PIE?

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