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SubjectRe: in-kernel linking issues
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:51:46AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> to be used like so
>
> ld -T z.ld -shared -o z.so z.o

I'm slightly worried about this. For things like shared libraries to be
relocatable on ARM on current toolchains, you need to build with -fPIC.
This introduces a measurable overhead to all code execution which our
current model does not. (Namely all symbol references go via the GOT
table.)

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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