Re: Baby X is bor nagain

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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On 27/06/2024 21:23, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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After taking care of all that the build did manage to produce an
executable, which appears to have run successfully.
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After doing a trial run with the produced executable, I looked at
the tcc man page.  As best I can tell, tcc simply silently
ignores the -fPIC option.

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I think that it tries to be a drop-in replacement for gcc, so supports
some of its options, even if they don't do anything.  Like -O3.
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Position-independent code seems to be a recent thing with gcc tools.  My
tools didn't support it either, until a year ago when I found out about
ASLR.

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gcc has supported generating position independent code for at
over a quarter of a century.
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For most, PIC isn't a necessity.

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That's your opinion.

Not really an opinion, but either a conjecture or a belief about
a question of fact.  It may not be easy to determine whether
the conjecture is true or not, but it's still a question of
fact and not just an opinion.

I don't think it matches reality.

That it is reasonable to ask whether the statement matches
reality is a giveaway that the proposition is a question
of fact and not merely a matter of opinion.