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binutils package

  1. Bug #254790
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 254790

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Mark Seaborn (mseaborn-cmedresearch) wrote :

Yes. That binutils fix was under this bug:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7011
(no mention of steps to reproduce though)
I also raised a bug on binutils myself:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7076
They are probably the same problem.

However, including a RELRO segment should not have any benefit for static executables because they are interpreted by the dynamic linker. See <http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/189> and <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardened-toolchain.xml#RELRO>.