Hardened Gentoo has added support for transparent PIE/SSP building via GCC's specfile. This means that any users upgrading an older Hardened install should remove any LDFLAGS or CFLAGS used to trigger PIE/SSP. Also, the hardened-gcc package is now deprecated and should be unmerged (version 5.0 is a dummy package). To get the current GCC, add USE="hardened pic" to /etc/make.conf if not using the hardened profile.