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Re: Reducing code size of Position Independent Executables (PIE) by shrinking the size of dynamic relocations section
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Binutils Development <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram at google dot com>, gnu-gabi at sourceware dot org, Xinliang David Li <davidxl at google dot com>, Sterling Augustine <saugustine at google dot com>, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Rahul Chaudhry <rahulchaudhry at google dot com>, Luis Lozano <llozano at google dot com>, Rafael Espíndola <rafael dot espindola at gmail dot com>, Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google dot com>, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google dot com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:10:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: Reducing code size of Position Independent Executables (PIE) by shrinking the size of dynamic relocations section
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AIX uses relative relocations and generates position independent
executables by default. The design of the AIX linker might provide
some additional inspiration.
Thanks, David