Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Mathieu Lacage wrote: > >> What I am trying to do is generate a non-shared relocatable dynamic >> binary which means that I really don't want to use -fPIC and I was >> hoping that the dynamic linker would be able to finish relocating the >> final binary. Is this impossible on linux-elf-x86-64 ? > > Yes, it is. The fact that this works on 32-bit is something of an > historical accident. I would reverse the sense of this: non PIC shared libraries does work on most processors (with some loss of efficiency), but not on x86_64 because it uses a small model by default. It might work if you use -mcmodel=large, but I haven't tried this. Ian
