On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:30 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: >> So, I was hoping that someone would step forward and review this. I’d like >> for a reviewer to consider, is this the type of error messages we want to >> vend to the poor user? It strikes me as, well, icky. Should -fPIE imply >> -fPIC? > > It is an optimization: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2014-12/msg00206.html > > If linker supports copy reloc in PIE, we turn off PIC for the data access. > Since the symbol is undefined in this case, linker complains. >
FYI, I opened a linker bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17847 I will suppress the second linker message. -- H.J.
