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Re: Path-agnostic binaries
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Vincent Legoll |
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Re: Path-agnostic binaries |
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Mon, 1 Oct 2018 13:43:34 +0200 |
Hello,
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:02 PM Eric Myhre <address@hidden> wrote:
> For starters, I'd like to offer a new name for this: "path-agnostic
> binaries". I've tossed the "relocatable" term out among a few dozen
> different groups of people now, and while it hits home and self-explains
> to about 60% of them instantly, the other 40% seem to think it sounds
> like "position independent code"/PIE and thus find it confusing.
> "Path-agnostic", while a bit more of a mouthful, seems to successfully
> avoid all confusion.
I completely agree on this naming. I've mostly heard / read "relocatable"
in the context of binary code.
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Vincent Legoll