From Mike Frysinger and/or Gentoo: - libsdl-SDL_stretch-PIC.patch ignoring the general fact of how SDL_stretch relies on executing dynamic code, the inline asm should let gcc handle the a details for getting the actual address for _copy_row as it will do the right thing test case: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/libsdl/sdl-stretch.tar.bz2