ld and R_386_GOTOFF relocs

[H. J. Lu]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:48:46AM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have gotten under peculiar circumstances following:
> (sysvinit) init.o: relocation R_386_GOTOFF against protected function 
> `main' can not be used when making a shared object
> 
> libc.so does not provide a weak 'main', main() is in crt1.o defined in asm 
> as '.protected main'.
> 
> init is built as -pie executable.
> 
> I think this check is valid if a shared lib is created, but not valid for 
> a PIE executable.
> 
> I think, that a check info->shared should be changed to
> info->shared && !info->pie (or !info->executable), to allow pie to be 
> linked, but I can't locate the one needed for this.
> 
> Thanks, Peter

This is a gcc bug

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19520


H.J.