S <s7s@imagine.op.pl> wrote:
>
> thus I had to recompile half of a system or so to eliminate all the code
> relevant to USE="-hardened", including thus chunks as: gcc, glibc
> and it works *now*

I guess it would have been sufficient to switch gcc temporarily
to a non-hardened profile (using gcc-config) before
(re)emerging xorg-x11.
At least, this had worked for me some months ago.
So for most things except xorg-x11 you can still have "hardened"
if you want.