The GNU linker expects read-only sections to be relocation
free. Presumably because the dynamic linker maps all read-only
sections as read-only mmaps and hence can't do relocations.
If we want text-relocation-free shared libraries we have to put all
relocations into writable sections, hence .data. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all@haskell.org/msg15119.html
IF_ARCH_alpha(SLIT("\t.data\n\t.align 3")
,IF_ARCH_sparc(SLIT(".data\n\t.align 8") {-<8 will break double constants -}
,IF_ARCH_i386(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 2"),
IF_ARCH_alpha(SLIT("\t.data\n\t.align 3")
,IF_ARCH_sparc(SLIT(".data\n\t.align 8") {-<8 will break double constants -}
,IF_ARCH_i386(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 2"),
- SLIT(".section .rodata\n\t.align 4"))
+ SLIT(".section .data\n\t.align 4"))
,IF_ARCH_x86_64(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 3"),
,IF_ARCH_x86_64(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 3"),
- SLIT(".section .rodata\n\t.align 8"))
+ SLIT(".section .data\n\t.align 8"))
,IF_ARCH_powerpc(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 2"),
SLIT(".data\n\t.align 2"))
,)))))
,IF_ARCH_powerpc(IF_OS_darwin(SLIT(".const_data\n.align 2"),
SLIT(".data\n\t.align 2"))
,)))))