Hi Fangrui,
> This was introduced in 2014-12 to use local binding for external symbols
> for -fPIE. Now that we have H.J. Lu's GOTPCRELX for years which mostly
> nullify the benefit of HAVE_LD_PIE_COPYRELOC, HAVE_LD_PIE_COPYRELOC
> should retire now.
Solaris/x86 ld doesn't support this, so HAVE_LD_PIE_COPYRELOC needs to
stay. The Solaris 11.3/x86 assembler doesn't support
R_X86_64_*GOTPCRELX.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
