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Re: In Stretch, gcc producing position independent binaries by default?

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	Hi.

On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:50:59 +0000 (UTC)
Neoklis Kyriazis <nkcyham@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have recently completed my first installation of Debian (stretch)
> and I am compiling some apps from source. I have noticed that filers
> show binaries produce by gcc as being shared library objects instead
> of just ELF executables.
> 
> I eventually, by searching, I worked around this by specifying the 
> 
> -no-pie flag in CFLAGS but I would like to know if gcc is by default
> set up to produce 
> position independent binaries or if I have not set up things correctly.

They patched gcc to produce PIE by default - and that's one of Debian
stretch release goals. See:

https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/PIEByDefaultTransition

Reco

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In Stretch, gcc producing position independent binaries by default? Neoklis Kyriazis <nkcyham@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-15 16:00 +0200
  Re: In Stretch, gcc producing position independent binaries by  default? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-04-15 16:30 +0200
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      Re: In Stretch, gcc producing position independent binaries by  default? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-04-15 19:30 +0200

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