Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:16:45 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: in-kernel linking issues |
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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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