PATCH for i386: --no-copy-relocs

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:35:54AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> As a side note, doing this does not provide any benefit at run-time for
> data accesses, besides reducing dynamic loader time;  Data accesses still
> go through the .got.

They wouldn't necessarily need to though.  You could implement
a form of relaxation on x86 that transformed

	movl    foo@GOT(%ebx), %edx
into
	leal    foo@GOTOFF(%ebx), %edx

which is convenient in that the instructions are the same size.


r~