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Re: Binutils 2.9.5.0.29 ld crash


On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:51:32PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:17:36 -0800
> > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
> > Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
> 
> > As you have noticed that using non-PIC code in shared libraries are
> > not well supported. Not all ELF linkers even try to support such a
> > feature. Not many people are doing what you are trying to do. I
> > guess it is very low on the binutils's priority list.
> 
> This worked last I looked on powerpc (some months ago).  It may have
> broken recently or be wrong just for sparc or for REL targets.

It worked very well on sparc*-linux as well, at least in the 2.9.5.0.22
(plus two patches in unrelated area, mostly sparc64).
I'll check current CVS version soon.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Linux version 2.3.47 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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