Re: in-kernel linking issues

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:16:45 +0000

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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