On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Morten Shearman Kirkegaard <moki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a somewhat strange request. I would like to generate statically > linked position independent executables for I386 and AMD64. The source > language is C, I use ELF for the object files, and link them using GNU > ld with a custom linker script. > > The code generated by GCC with -fpic uses the Global Offset Table to > resolve external symbols. Since my program will be statically linked, I > would like to avoid this, to simplify loading. All symbols will be > resolvable at link time. > > Is there an option to avoid using a GOT? Such a thing could be supported in principle, by including a runtime relocation routine in the executable itself. However, I'm not aware of any current support for this. Ian
