Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > 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. It might well, but I would question the point. Presumably the OP wants non-PIC for performance's sake, but I wouldn't have thought he's going to get it from the large model. Benchmarks would be interesting. Andrew.
