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Re: linker error with new linker

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: "John Calcote" <jcalcote at novell dot com>
Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:31:58 +0200
Subject: Re: linker error with new linker
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"John Calcote" <jcalcote@novell.com> writes:

> [...]
> If this assumption is correct, then I believe it's really a good thing
> - we SHOULD use all -fPIC flagged code in shared libraries. But I'm not
> sure why it's become important in this later version of the linker.
>  
> SuSE Linux 10 box - ld is 2.16.91.0.2 20050720 (packaged with gcc
> 4.0.2): works fine.
> [...]

It was always this way on x86-64 - and ia64, s390, ppc.  Just i386
handles shared libs without -fPIC - and even there it's not
recommended.  

It just might be that GCC generated different code than before so that
you now have a relocation where you had a different one before.

Cheers,
Andreas
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