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Re: question about pic and relocation
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:51:08PM +0800, Eric Fisher wrote:
> But flag '-shared' and '-fpic' are used to create shared object,
> aren't they? When I use objdump to see the codes, I find that the
> program address doesn't start from 0. Such as,
On MIPS, it happens that shared libraries are linked as 0x5ffe0000
or thereabouts. It's historical.
> Why? And the symble 'b' is of absolute type(*A*)?
I don't know; not enough information.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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