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So x86-64 has the RIP-relative addressings which makes PIC codes easy to write and relocations needed much less. Why is relocations still needed then on x86-64? For what features? I can try to explore with objdump but what C/C++ code patterns to compile to see?

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This article explains it better than I can, but basically global variables in a shared library.

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    See also the sections concerning relocations in ["How To Write Shared Libraries"](http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf) by Ulrich Drepper. – Eugene Sep 07 '11 at 11:32