From 1bade3f439265d1c964701316922ab5cbfed93c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:41:38 +0200
Subject: Document the --enable-default-pie/ssp options

Also document test failures in gcc chapter 8
---
 chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml')

diff --git a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
index 0b7f17913..2c8fc4c31 100644
--- a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
@@ -134,6 +134,20 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term><parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter> and
+      <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Those switches allow GCC to compile programs with
+	  some hardening security features (more information on those in
+	  the <xref linkend="pie-ssp-info"/> in chapter 8). They are not
+	  strictly needed at this stage, since the compiler will only produce
+	  temporary executables. But it is cleaner to have the temporary
+	  packages be as close as possible to the final ones.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--disable-shared</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
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