Re: static pie support for x86 (from OpenBSD)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20170531085212.GB22580%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 05:38:33PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> I ported OpenBSD's static pie support to x86. Here's what it looks like.
>> I left some debugging stuff in the csu Makefile that needs cleanup?
>> Opinions? Should I add it?
>
>I really dislike how this is implemented.

How would you do it otherwise with minimal disruption?

In summary the implementation keeps an _DYNAMIC entry in the static binary,
and adds new crt0 code (mcrt0 for profiling and rcrt0 for non) to do the
relocations on startup (like a minimal ld.so).

christos