[I don't think it's off-topic at all] Linking speed for C++

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:45:03PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> On some platforms, this doesn't work the way you'd like.  Instead, the
> PIC code is fully resolved at link time... and still generating PLT
> entries or COPY relocs.

Hmm.  Are you sure?  It shouldn't in the case of data symbols. 
For code symbols that is fine -- we'd be branching to the PLT
in any case.

I'd class this as a linker bug if it happens.


r~