gcc and -fPIC

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of bserdar
> Sent: 15 October 2004 19:27

> >  80485b3:       e8 00 00 00 00          call   80485b8 <X::f()+0xc>
> >  80485b8:       5b                      pop    %ebx
> >  80485b9:       81 c3 5c 12 00 00       add    $0x125c,%ebx
> 
> With pop ebx, it pops the eip at that instruction to ebx. I'm 
> guessing it'll use ebx as a base pointer to data (or code?) 
> from this point on. You can verify this guess by accessing 
> some global variables from within X::f() and see whether it 
> uses ebx-relative access.
> 

  Oh blimey, I didn't spot that.  Yes, of course that's what it's doing.
Please ignore my previous post, I would now assume that the -r flag will in
fact show that no reloc is applied nor needed on that instruction.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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