Ocamlopt documentation updates#9980
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Including interactions with PIE. Closes: ocaml#8867
No more "Intel Pentium" and "AMD Athlon".
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Co-authored-by: Vincent Laviron <[email protected]>
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| code that is statically linked to produce a non-relocatable | ||
| executable. The generated code cannot be linked to produce a shared | ||
| library nor a position-independent executable (PIE). Many Linux | ||
| systems produce PIEs by default, causing errors when linking code |
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Minor nitpick: do we want to keep an up-to-date list of OSs with PIEs as default? For instance, openBSD seems to also produce PIE executable by default.
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do we want to keep an up-to-date list of OSs with PIEs as default?
No we don't want, because we are unable to.
However I can make the advice less specific: "Many operating systems produce PIEs by default..."
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This less specific wording seems more future-proof.
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-nodynlinkbetter, including interactions with PIE. (Closes: ocamlopt -nodynlink does not work on armhf #8867)