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From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR>
To: Joerg Faschingbauer <jfasch@aon.at>
Cc: charlet@ACT-Europe.FR, rth@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of -fPIC on Tru64
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011218001347.B6541@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011217204629C.jfasch@aon.at>; from jfasch@aon.at on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:46:29PM +0100

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-17 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-13  1:35 Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-13  1:44 ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-13  3:35   ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-13  9:26     ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-13  9:40       ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-13  9:49         ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-13  9:57           ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-17 11:54             ` Joerg Faschingbauer
2001-12-17 15:22               ` Arnaud Charlet [this message]
2001-12-18 12:12                 ` Joerg Faschingbauer
2001-12-18 14:03                   ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-18 12:45                 ` Jeff Sturm

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