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Re: dynamic linker question
- To: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>, libc-hacker@gnu.org
- Subject: Re: dynamic linker question
- From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:19:36 -0800
- References: <E103Lpe-0005m2-00@fountain.nexus.co.uk>
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:15:41PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Currently the dynamic linker on ARM systems doesn't support loading non-PIC
> objects. Essentially this is because doing relocs that involve writing to
> the text area is messy owing to the cache most commonly used (writeback and
> split I/D).
This should be no problem -- you just have to flush the cache. This
must happen likewise for most other sane processors.
r~