Relocations put in read-only segment?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199804240119.VAA15305@lunacity.ne.mediaone.net >you write:
  > When I compile the following code with egcs 1.0.2, using `-O -fPIC',
  > on either i386-*-netbsd or i586-*-linux-gnulibc1, the relocation for
  > `XtStrings+788' is put in a read-only section (the text section under
  > NetBSD, rodata under Linux).  While it's true that ld.so on both
  > platforms is careful to make this work, it's canonically wrong.  If
  > the relocation is done in a data section at all, it should be in a
  > writable section.
This is a pretty common problem; generally it's fixed by having
SELECT_SECTION and related functions put these things into the
data section for PIC code generation.  Unfortunately many ports
do not handle this case correctly.

jeff