On 2019-12-17, Richard Henderson wrote:
>This begins by dropping the -Ttext-segment stuff, which Fangrui Song
>correctly points out does not work with lld. But it's also obsolete,
>so instead of adding support for lld's --image-base, remove it all.
>
>Then, remove some other legacy random addresses that were supposed
>to apply to softmmu, but didn't really make any sense, and aren't
>used anyway when PIE is used, which is the default with a modern
>linux distribution.
>
>Then, clean up some of the configure logic surrounding PIE, and its
>current non-application to non-x86.
>
>Finally, add support for static-pie linking.
>
>
>r~
>
>
>Richard Henderson (7):
> configure: Drop adjustment of textseg
> tcg: Remove softmmu code_gen_buffer fixed address
> configure: Do not force pie=no for non-x86
> configure: Always detect -no-pie toolchain support
> configure: Unnest detection of -z,relro and -z,now
> configure: Override the os default with --disable-pie
> configure: Support -static-pie if requested
>
> accel/tcg/translate-all.c | 37 ++----------
> configure | 120 ++++++++++++--------------------------
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
>
>--
>2.20.1
Thank you for the patch set. I hope this will make that lld qemu user
happy.
How will this patch set affect statically linked user mode binaries?
(qemu-user-static packages on Debian, CentOS, ...)