[PATCH] elf: Don't make forced local symbol dynamic for PIC outputs

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:07 AM Olivier Hainque <hainque@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> Hello H.J.
>
> > On 10 Jun 2020, at 15:00, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Relocatable executables come from VxWorks.  Let's ask a VxWorks
> > expert.  Olivier, does VxWorks require local and section symbols dynamic
> > for position independent outputs, like PIE or shared library?
>
> I don't think so. At least on ppc vx6 and vx7 + arm vx6,
> the system toolchain doesn't do that.
>
> But AFAICS, is_relocatable_executable in binutils is
> not a VxWorks thing. It seems to be more a SymbianOS thing.
>
> There are very few places where the flag is set. One of them
> is elf32_arm_symbian_link_hash_table_create, and if I'm not
> mistaken, the flag was introduced from
>
>   https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2005-02/msg00174.html
>
> which starts with
>
>  "arm-*-symbianelf executables are relocatable.
>  This has a few implications:"

Does SymbianOS run on tic6x?

commit ac14530735340ebde54e9d536e3a0fd3e82f36db
Author: Bernd Schmidt <bernds@codesourcery.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 31 08:58:28 2011 +0000

    include/elf/
            * tic6x.h (R_C6000_JUMP_SPLOT, R_C6000_EHTYPE,
            R_C6000_PCR_H16, R_C6000_PCR_L16): New relocs.
            (SHN_TIC6X_SCOMMON): Define.

added is_relocatable_executable for tic6x.  Bernd, is it required?

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H.J.