On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:13:23PM +0200, Eric M. Hielscher wrote:
> which makes it seem as though amd64.o includes the bad code, though I
> verified that amd64.o was compiled as follows:
> 
> gcc -c -fPIC -DSYS_linux -o amd64.o amd64.S
> 
> Any ideas on how to get a working libasmrun.a for my situation?

I think you've hit this bug:

http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4795

Probably would get fixed faster if someone would work out the
assembler hoops required to generate PIC code on x86-64 and then post
a patch to the bug.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat