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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2022-01-13 18:04:49 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2022-02-10 09:18:15 -0300
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elf: Remove LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS
It is solely for prelink with PIE executables [1].

[1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-hacker/2003-11/msg00127.html

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
   functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
   using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
 
+* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed.  The variable was mainly used to
+  support prelink PIE binaries.
+
 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable