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Re: Allow copy relocations with pie links


>> What should this code do, then? Add a COPY reloc only for
>> position-dependent executables?
>
> Yes.  If we're building a PIE then we should be using -fpic/PIC
> compiled code and won't have the relocs that would hit this code.  If
> we do try to build a PIE with non-PIC code, then we'll get dynamic
> relocs in text.  Enabling copy relocs for PIEs would still give
> us DT_TEXTREL.  (Of course, ppc64 gcc is PIC by default, so the
> foregoing mostly applies to ppc32.)

OK, thanks. Sri, both locations in powerpc.cc should use the test
!output_is_position_independent(). That will leave powerpc functioning
exactly as before.

-cary


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