[x264-devel] x86: eliminate text relocation in asm

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 16 Mar, Henrik Gramner wrote :
> The fact that some Google engineer on a whim decided to arbitrarily
> break user space for no good reason by forbidding relocations is

There are good reasons to do that, notably for security.

See:
https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2016/01/textrels-text-relocations-and-their-impact-on-hardening-techniques
and
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Textrels_Guide

Whether that is needed for Android is a different question though :)

With my kindest regards,

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