The code generated by -mcmodel=medany is defined to be position-independent, but is not guarnteed to function correctly when linked into position-independent executables or libraries. See the recent discussion at the psABI specification [1] for more details.
[1]: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/issues/245 gcc/ChangeLog: * doc/invoke.texi: Document the degree of position independence that -mcmodel=medany affords. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@rivosinc.com> --- gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi index 5504971ea81..eaba12bb61f 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi @@ -27568,6 +27568,10 @@ Generate code for the medium-any code model. The program and its statically defined symbols must be within any single 2 GiB address range. Programs can be statically or dynamically linked. +The code generated by the medium-any code model is position-independent, but is +not guarnteed to function correctly when linked into position-independent +executables or libraries. + @item -mexplicit-relocs @itemx -mno-exlicit-relocs Use or do not use assembler relocation operators when dealing with symbolic -- 2.32.0
