Previously, the position-independent attribute bit would be set in a load segment if it was set on the first constituent object segment. Now it is only set in the load segment if it is set in all the constituent object segments. This is consistent with the ORCA linker's general approach of conservatively combining the flags from the object segments.
This would happen if a later object segment had a more restrictive alignment than previous object segments that contribute to the same load segment, as in the following example:
s1 start
jsl s2
rtl
end
align 256
s2 start
rtl
end
These alignment requirements can be satisfied by just giving the load segment the most restrictive alignment of any object segment (since all alignments are powers of 2) and inserting space as necessary to align the code from each object segment.
Stephen Heumann
Kelvin Sherlock
mikew50