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Subject: Re: strange "Exec format error" (gcc4.2 suspicious)
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On Mon, 21 May 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> 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?

Not that I don't agree with you, but probably much less time than the two 
commits to disable and re-enable support and prevent noise on other lists. 
:)


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