[PATCH] Introduce new gold plugin option "relocation-pic"

[Alexey Volkov]

2014-04-24 17:53 GMT+04:00 Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>:

> > Since on Android only PIC code is supported.
> > One reason for this is unsupported COPY relocation on Android.
>
> If only pic code is supported, then every executable is PIE, no? My
> understanding is that all that -pie does is
>
> * Complain if code that is not position independent is found.
> * Avoid relaxing PIC code to non PIC.
>
> Given that the current setup works, it looks like the android linker
> has no PIC->non PIC relaxations. In other words, passing -pie should
> be a nop and we should always do it.
>
> Do you see any other difference in the produced binaries when passing -pie?
>
Also with -pie linker will not create PLT section that is useless for
executable.
Anyway the executable should work regardless of -pie linker option presence.

>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>



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Alexey Volkov
Intel Corporation
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