Ping Re: Text relocations in PIEs

[Khem Raj]

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Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> 
>>> Ping.  This patch 
>>> <http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2007-October/018617.html> is pending 
>>> review.
>>>
>> Do you have a test case to show how it fails and then it passes when
>> the patch is applied? Thanks.
> 
> Compile "hello, world" to a .o file without -fpie/-fPIE/-fpic/-fPIC.
> 
> Link the resulting .o file into an executable with -pie.
> 
> The resulting executable crashes with either uClibc configuration without 
> the patch, and works or gives a runtime error after the patch depending on 
> the __FORCE_SHAREABLE_TEXT_SEGMENTS__ setting.
> 
> (Might not apply when objects are PIC by default as on MIPS; tested on 
> ARM.)
> 
yes. I can confirm that on ARM.

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Khem Raj
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