At Cauldron, the question came up whether the dynamic loader needs to be taught about the new relocations for PC-relative addressing.
I think they would only matter if we supported PC-relative addressing *and* text relocations. Is that really necessary? These text relocations would not work reliably anyway because the maximum displacement is not large enough. For example, with the current process layout, it's impossible to reach shared objects from the main program and vice versa. And some systems might want to add additional randomization, so that shared objects are not mapped closed together anymore.
