gcc and -fPIC

[Andreas Schwab]

Gerhard Wiesinger <gerhard@wiesinger.com> writes:

> Why is there a call at location 80485b3?

This is used to load the program counter since the x86 does not have a
pc-relative addressing mode except in calls.  That's the only way to get
the address of the GOT in position independ code.

> So is the code gcc produces (in)correct, or objdump can't read any
> Position Independent Code?

Neither.

Andreas.

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