Um, ARM by default is very not PIC; loads have only a 4k offset so references to the data section are stored as absolute addresses in the text section, unless y

Um, ARM by default is very not PIC; loads have only a 4k offset so references to the data section are stored as absolute addresses in the text section, unless you explicitly specify PIC which adds another 'add rN, pc' instruction to each reference. (and actually I believe Windows doesn't even support these PIC references in ARM code)