On 05/01/2017 08:28 PM, Suprateeka R Hegde wrote:
So the ratio shows ~96% is RELATIVE reloc. And only ~4% others. This is not the case on HP-UX/Itanium. But as I said, this comparison does not make sense as the runtime architecture and ISA are totally different.
It could be that HP-UX was written in a way to reduce relative relocations, or that the final executables aren't actually PIC anymore. The amount of C++ code with large vtables could differ as well.
Here's a GCC extension proposed which is relevant to producing fully relocatable code with fewer relative relocations:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38295 Florian