https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30922
--- Comment #1 from Pali Rohár <pali at kernel dot org> --- Just to note that Position Independet Executable and Export Table are two totally different things. You can have (and it is pretty standard) to have fixed-address executable without relocation table (so it always must be loaded at specific virtual address) and this executable export some symbols/functions to other later loaded DLL libraries. For example if application executable support plugins and these plugins need to call application functions. It is plugin DLL which must have relocation table for loading it at any address, but for calling application executable function, there is absolutely no need to have relocation table for application executable itself. So it looks like that -pie option is duing two different and unrelated things: generating relocation table and generating export table. And this should be fixed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
