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Re: PATCH: Enable PIC for mips*-*-*
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Eric Christopher <echristo at cygnus dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:29:59 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable PIC for mips*-*-*
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
- Reply-to: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > and linking archives into shared libraries is wrong on a number of
> > platforms, and the way to tell libtool about it is use a different
> > setting in deplibs_check_method.
>
> Feel free to get it right. My Linux binutils works fine under Linux.
Please note that while linking PDC into a shared library technically does
work for a number of systems, the resulting library is not shared anymore
as it contains dynamic relocations in its text segment. Actually I recall
a nice comment on relocations in text that was once sent by Roland McGrath
here... Search the archive using "goat" and "relocations" keywords. ;-)
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