Problem creating PIC executable

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Stefano Bonifazi <stefboombastic@gmail.com> writes:

> Are you the same author of this great blog
> http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/category/programming/page/21 ?

Yes.

> I have tried the following command:
>
>> "readelf -d myobjectfile | fgrep TEXT"
>
>
> to all object files opened here:
> http://cid-9d0dd0f6c6e22fe8.office.live.com/self.aspx/Documenti/ppc-test.linking.txt
> but I could not see anything.. all seemed to be PIC .. I dunno if
> there is any other way for checking if an object file or shared file
> is really PIC

When linking with -fPIC I would normally expect the gcc driver to use
crtbeginS.o rather than crtbegin.o.  See if crtbegin.o in particular was
compiled without -fPIC.

> the same command on the final executable gives:
>
>> 0x00000016 (TEXTREL)   0x0

It may help to see what relocations are in the text or data segments, to
see why the TEXTREL entry is being added.

Ian