Re: bogus handing of Linux shared libraries

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 27, 2001, Philip Blundell <address@hidden> wrote:

> There's no good reason to special-case some Linux architectures as
> compared to others.

The reason is precisely that some old ARM dynamic loaders failed to
adjust certain dynamic relocations, and the way non-PIC code is
generated for the ARM prevents it from being properly introduced in
shared libraries.  I know the first problem has already been fixed in
recent versions of glibc, but I don't know about the latter.  If you
know for sure it has, and can come up with a test we can use to make
sure we've got a fixed version, I'd be happy to use it on
GNU/Linux/ARM.

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