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Generation of these files, which sport a ``.hie`` suffix, is enabled via the
``-fwrite-ide-info`` flag. See :ref:`hie-options` for more information.
+- A new flag ``-xp`` is added on x86_64. When it is passed, the runtime linker
+ can load object files compiled with ``-fPIC -fexternal-dynamic-refs``
+ anywhere in the address space. This used to be restricted to the low 2Gb.
+
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