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Re: Reducing code size of Position Independent Executables (PIE) by shrinking the size of dynamic relocations section



GNU ld supports earlier versions of AIX XCOFF, so one can look at that code.

The current documentation for XCOFF is

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/com.ibm.aix.files/XCOFF.htm

- David


On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola
<rafael.espindola@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where is it documented?
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
> David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> AIX uses relative relocations and generates position independent
>> executables by default.  The design of the AIX linker might provide
>> some additional inspiration.
>>
>> Thanks, David