[Development] how to reduce the relocation <-- Use static qt libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 24 de julho de 2012 06.40.15, song.7.liu at nokia.com wrote:
> This paintEvent is implemented inside the analogclock.cpp, but "readelf -r
> analogclock" shows that:
> 
> Relocation section '.rel.dyn' at offset 0x1b08 contains 72
> entries:                                  
> Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
> ... ...
> 0000b090  00006f02 R_ARM_ABS32       00002933   _ZN11AnalogClock10pain
> ... ...
> 
> We think this is not expected, so is there a way to avoid such unnecessary
> relocation ?

Hint 1: don't look at symbols from the executable itself. The executables are 
position-dependent so they can get away from having relocations.

Hint 2: use eu-readelf or instead add the -W flag to readelf to print the full 
symbol name.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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