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On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 11:08, Marvin H=C3=A4user <mhaeuser@posteo.de> wrote=
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>
> Hey Steven,
>
> As I said, I prefer my patch, but this would work too of course.
> I talked about the PIE stuff with Ard before, so maybe he has an opinion
> on this? :)
>
> (Small correction for my last e-mail, of course we are not *guaranteed*
> there are *no* relocations in .text, but they'd all point to GOT (or
> whatever else the target uses for PIE), and references will probably be
> relative; for ARM architectures I remember Ard talking about specific
> kinds of relocations being avoided entirely).
>

Hello all,

As I understand it, we are talking about a native PE/COFF toolchain
here that does not rely on GenFw for ELF to PE/COFF conversion, right?
If so, there is no way the self-relocation is going to work anyway, so
whether we pass -fpie or not for AArch64 is immaterial here.