Re: PIE support

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paul Jakma wrote on Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:19:38PM CET:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >Try 'gcc -v' in all cases to see what's happening.  Try 'gld 
> >--verbose' and 'gcc -v -Wl,--verbose' to see what the linker 
> >thinks.
> 
> Hmm, ok. It's using the solaris linker. How do I get gcc to use a 
> different linker? (I've already looked in the gcc docs, i dont see 
> how, LD=... doesnt work it seems).

I believe that is a configure time option for GCC: you can 
  ../gcc/configure --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/path/to/ld

(don't use the former and point the latter to a non-GNU ld though).

> >Erm.  Stupid question: how can you recognize this way for certain, 
> >whether this is PIE or not?  I only know of 'file a.out' reporting 
> >a shared object.
> 
> Good question. I've been using file. Testing on Linux, the most 
> immediately obvious difference between PIE and normal executables is 
> that the PIE exe has an ELF type of "DYN", also 'main' is registered 
> as symbol in the symbol table.

Ah, yes.  I knew that. ;-)

Cheers,
Ralf