Investigate if -mcmodel=large is appropriate

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Investigate if -mcmodel=large is appropriate

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 1 comments

We currently set -mcmodel=large in order to force absolute addressing. This may not be necessary and may result in unexpected consequences.

Investigate if this is required.

Answer 1 · 2021-08-24T21:11:28.000Z

It turns out we can avoid needing to set -mcmodel=large by not forcing no-pic/no-pie as done in commit 0564537. This doesn't quite de-riddle the need for this mcmodel setting, but as we no longer require this I am marking this closed.