From 2496ae99678cbcd9bb6e9d8962e7dffa31d153a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ayke van Laethem <aykevanlaethem@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:01:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] compiler: emit non-PIE executables

This fixes a problem on baremetal targets, where PIE doesn't make any
sense. Specifically, on ARM, the compiler sometimes inserted GOT
pointers for linker-defined globals.
---
 compiler.go | 2 +-
 target.go   | 9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compiler.go b/compiler.go
index ade0b9bd..e3be9067 100644
--- a/compiler.go
+++ b/compiler.go
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ func NewCompiler(pkgName, triple string, dumpSSA bool) (*Compiler, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	c.machine = target.CreateTargetMachine(triple, "", "", llvm.CodeGenLevelDefault, llvm.RelocPIC, llvm.CodeModelDefault)
+	c.machine = target.CreateTargetMachine(triple, "", "", llvm.CodeGenLevelDefault, llvm.RelocStatic, llvm.CodeModelDefault)
 	c.targetData = c.machine.CreateTargetData()
 
 	c.mod = llvm.NewModule(pkgName)
diff --git a/target.go b/target.go
index 5a1b3d7c..5f8a43b7 100644
--- a/target.go
+++ b/target.go
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ type TargetSpec struct {
 // Load a target specification
 func LoadTarget(target string) (*TargetSpec, error) {
 	spec := &TargetSpec{
-		Triple:    target,
-		BuildTags: []string{runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH},
-		Linker:    "cc",
-		Objcopy:   "objcopy",
+		Triple:      target,
+		BuildTags:   []string{runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH},
+		Linker:      "cc",
+		PreLinkArgs: []string{"-no-pie"}, // WARNING: clang < 5.0 requires -nopie
+		Objcopy:     "objcopy",
 	}
 
 	// See whether there is a target specification for this target (e.g.