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

[Alexey Volkov]

2014-04-28 20:38 GMT+04:00 Rafael Ávila de Espíndola <
rafael.espindola at gmail.com>:

> Getting close. LGTM with a comment about why we can't use
> isPIEDefault: It would enable PIE only logic, like which TLS model to
> use, when compiling. That actually looks like a bug in the driver, but
> can be fixed in another commit.
>
I don't understand how it could be fixed.
When compiler generates object it has no information regarding further
usage of object: executable or library.
Function isPIEDefault turns on PIE for every object for specific target.
So it seems to be useful only for targets with no shared libraries.

>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
> http://reviews.llvm.org/D2668
>
>
>


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Alexey Volkov
Intel Corporation
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