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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>A</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">llowing relocations against text segments when -no-dynamic-linker is given sounds too hacky and not OK. You cannot describe >why it makes sense, right? By making
sense, I don't mean "because Linux kernel needs this" but something like "-no-dynamic->linker is an option to do blah blah and semantically it naturally implies it should allow text relocations".</span><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well, may be I can.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lets start from simple.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why do we restrict relocations against text segment ? I guess because we having such relocations</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">means that text segments will not be shared right ? (if we are talking about DSO).</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That is not fine, but not a critical issue too.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But why do we restrict relocations for PIE ?</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">George.</span></div>
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