Use of -fPIC on Tru64

Arnaud Charlet charlet@ACT-Europe.FR
Mon Dec 17 15:22:00 GMT 2001


> The Linux dynamic loader implements loading non-PIC code. What you
> lose though is sharing of text pages because text has to be patched
> then.

What does this have to do with Tru64 where position independent code is part
of the ABI ?

I appreciate and understand the motivation on systems such as Linux, but
Tru64 is very different in this respect, and I still haven't seen a good
argument to enable -fPIC on Tru64 for libgcc.

Arno



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