Hi!   
      
   I can assemble and link the source in my "cycles" post with:   
      
   as -gdwarf2 -o posting.o posting.asm   
   gcc -static -o posting posting.o   
   That gives an executable with 811856 bytes.   
      
   gcc -o posting posting.o   
   produces:   
   /usr/bin/ld: posting.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.data' can   
   not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC   
   /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output   
   collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status   
      
   But with that command I can link a dynamic executable:   
   ld -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2   
   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o   
   posting.o /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o -lc -o posting   
   That gives an executable with 8224 bytes.   
      
   Why doesn't gcc use the right object files in the link?   
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   aen   
      
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