Building libstdc++ non-shared with -fpic ?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  1, 2000, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:

>> > That would imply that you are able to build shared libraries, which
>> > use code which is not position independent
>> 
>> That is indeed the case.

> But only if your object model supports it.

Not only the object model.  The dynamic loader must support it too.  I
remember a case of someone building shared libraries out of non-PIC
code on GNU/Linux/ARM (what a coincidence :-) that would fail because
glibc's ld.so wouldn't handle a particular kind of relocation.

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