On 02/26/2011 04:57 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > This isn't a case of the code not being position independent. This is > case of where the relocations are applied. > This is a generic comment and may not apply to this particular case, but it's pretty easy on x86 to build a chunk of code which is self-relocating, meaning that it can be jumped to at any address without any pre-relocation and do the necessary relocations itself. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
