Re: [Valgrind-developers] 3.0.0 and after

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

In message <200...@kf...>
          Maurice van der Pot <gri...@ge...> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0100, Julian Seward wrote:
> > - A rewritten address space manager, which will finally make
> >   the thing work properly on 64-bit platforms, and should
> >   provide a better base for porting to non-Linux OSs.
> 
> Is this new code also meant to allow PIE builds?

It will make PIE builds unnecessary so they will presumably go away.

> Not that I'm a fan of building with PIE, but at the moment I have no way
> of disabling it other than patching configure. The reason for this is
> that we have compiler profiles that default to PIE and actually need
> a flag to disable it.

I don't think it will matter if you build with -fpie - if you haven't
use --enable-pie then valgrind will be loaded at a fixed address even
if you happened to build with -fpie and there won't be any problems.

The only downside is a possible slight slowdown from the fact that you
are using position independent code when don't have to.

Tom

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