gcc and -fPIC
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Fri Oct 15 19:55:00 GMT 2004
Gerhard Wiesinger <gerhard@wiesinger.com> writes:
> Why is there a call at location 80485b3?
This is used to load the program counter since the x86 does not have a
pc-relative addressing mode except in calls. That's the only way to get
the address of the GOT in position independ code.
> So is the code gcc produces (in)correct, or objdump can't read any
> Position Independent Code?
Neither.
Andreas.
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