[PATCH] aarch64: Check PIC instead of SHARED in start.S

[H.J. Lu]

On 10/2/17, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> wrote:
> On 29/09/17 22:32, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Since start.o may be compiled as PIC, we should check PIC instead of
>> SHARED.
>>
>> OK for master?
>>
>
> i believe that the compile/link tests worked..

Does static PIE of hjl/pie/static branch run on arm and aarch64?

> ..but i still don't understand how the GOT entries
> of the startup code get initialized in PIE executable
> at runtime.

You just avoid GOT entries in start.S for static PIE by using
PC relative relocations.

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H.J.