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From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:42:26 +0000
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 3/5] common/board_r: manual relocation for
	cmd table
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Hi Simon,

On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 16:34 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Andreas,

> Why do you need manual reloc? Is this a toolchain bug?

>From my experience the only way to escape manual relocation is to use
PIE (Position Independent Executable), but this might not be supported
in a toolchain for AVR (or it doesn't actually work good enough - this I
understood from this message
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574716)

-Alexey