On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:21:16AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:39:39AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >>> He'll get much better code by putting the program into a -fPIC .so, > >>> loading it from a small stub and then unmap the stub. > >>> large model generates really very bad code because all jumps > >>> will be indirect. > >> Is it also true with -fpie? > > > > Not sure what you mean? > > Right, sorry. I meant "can you also use -fpie and use a linker script > to relocate the text section", if you want to place it high but the code > is not gigantic?
That would require -fpie crt* Probably doable, but needs some more effort than just using a classical main() stub. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
