Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > * Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho: > >> I wonder if this is restricted to linker that Golang uses. >> Were you able to reproduce the same problem with Binutils' linker? > > The example is carefully constructed to use the external linker. It > invokes gcc, which then invokes the BFD linker in my case. Indeed. That question was unnecessary. :-D > Based on the relocations, I assume there is only so much the linker can > do here. I'm amazed that it produces an executable at all, let alone > one that runs correctly on some kernel versions! Agreed. That isn't expected to work. Both the compiler and the linker have to generate PIE for it to work. > I assume that the Go toolchain simply lacks PIE support on ppc64le. Maybe the support is there, but it doesn't generate PIC by default? -- Tulio Magno
