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Re: [Xen-devel] [Mini-OS] Drop useless -fpic flag

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Mini-OS] Drop useless -fpic flag
From: Grzegorz Miłoś <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:29:52 +0000
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Yes, that's right. At the time I was writing the first version I just copied all the flags. I, too, believe -fpic acn be discarded.

Cheers
Gregor

On 28 Nov 2007, at 16:42, Keir Fraser wrote:

Ah yes, I think the -fpic was inherited from Xen's Makefile. Xen has to be built -fpic because it is not linked sufficiently close to address 0x0 to use absolute addressing the 32-bit displacements. This isn't the case for
minios.

-- Keir

On 28/11/07 16:35, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Keir Fraser, le Tue 27 Nov 2007 12:33:23 +0000, a écrit :
If it builds without it then it should be fine, I believe.

And nobody raised his hand, so here is a patch:

Drop useless -fpic flag.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r c555a5f97982 extras/mini-os/arch/x86/arch.mk
--- a/extras/mini-os/arch/x86/arch.mk Wed Nov 28 13:36:56 2007 +0000
+++ b/extras/mini-os/arch/x86/arch.mk Wed Nov 28 16:33:37 2007 +0000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ endif
endif

ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),x86_64)
-ARCH_CFLAGS := -m64 -mno-red-zone -fpic -fno-reorder-blocks
+ARCH_CFLAGS := -m64 -mno-red-zone -fno-reorder-blocks
ARCH_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
ARCH_ASFLAGS := -m64
ARCH_LDFLAGS := -m elf_x86_64



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