On Wednesday 17 May 2006 07:19, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> Attached tests show a case, when a final binary is OK if
> compiled w/ -fPIC (or -fPIE, it does not have to be ET_DYN, but can be),
> else it fails if using aliases (both weak and strong) for global data.
>
> Sorry for the "big" test cases, I couldn't make them smaller.

this is related to this thread on the glibc list:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-04/msg00044.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-04/msg00048.html
-mike