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Re: PE32/PE32+ linking of DLLs (and EFI applications)
>>> On 02.05.11 at 19:46, "Joe Abbey" <jabbey@arxan.com> wrote:
> Jan,
>
> For PE32, gcc emits PIC code which uses a call instruction to obtain the
> current EIP. After that, an offset is subtracted (usually relative the the
> GOT). Thus allowing the binary to be memory mapped at any base address.
>
> In PE32+, most compilers generate PIC via RIP-relative addressing mode.
>
> Some compilers still require linker-generated base relocations, and ld will
Or assembly code, as in the case I'm looking at.
> create them if the COFF relocation is of the correct type.
No, at least not as far as I was able to find out. If you know
differently, can you please point me to how this works and/or
where this is implemented?
Jan
> I have no familiarity with EFI applications, however.
>
> Does this help?
>
> Joe
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 7:29 AM, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
>> How do ld-linked DLLs work when there don't seem to be any base
>> relocations getting emitted? While imo for DLLs this should be the
>> default anyway, is there a magic switch that I'm overlooking? EFI
>> applications also require relocations to be emitted...
>>
>> While the hack called "dlltool" isn't really an option anyway, it's not
>> even possible to use it as the file generated with --base-file is empty
>> (I assume because data gets written to it only for COFF input files,
>> but on Linux all of the inputs are [obviously] ELF).
>>
>> Thanks, Jan
>>