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Re: Building libstdc++ non-shared with -fpic ?
- To: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: Building libstdc++ non-shared with -fpic ?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 01 Jul 2000 18:39:21 -0300
- Cc: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, lundril at gmx dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200007011436.PAA01009@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
On Jul 1, 2000, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
>> > That would imply that you are able to build shared libraries, which
>> > use code which is not position independent
>>
>> That is indeed the case.
> But only if your object model supports it.
Not only the object model. The dynamic loader must support it too. I
remember a case of someone building shared libraries out of non-PIC
code on GNU/Linux/ARM (what a coincidence :-) that would fail because
glibc's ld.so wouldn't handle a particular kind of relocation.
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