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Re: Position independent CODE with position dependent DATA ?

From: John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon dot com>
To: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:06:03 -0700
Subject: Re: Position independent CODE with position dependent DATA ?
References: <AANLkTiklLAtVndLrWvD4_iUJ7S1TtD3rAZ6rAEyHMfQ3@mail.gmail.com> <4C349077.5060705@bitwagon.com> <AANLkTilp7QnhSxWrf6JraX2k75YVAt1QjbRWyDqPrACT@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/07/2010 07:58 AM, Renaud wrote:
> Our script is already using MEMORY statements: CODE and read-only DATA
> are placed in ROM, and DATA in RAM.
> 
> In fact the problem is only the GOT (we need to be at a fixed known
> address) ...

> We need to tell LD that the GOT table is located @0x4000 (fixed), and
> not relatively to current PC.

Implement a new loader option which would be specified to gcc as

    -Wl,-z,fixedGOT=0x4000

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