From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17402 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2001 23:12:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17366 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2001 23:11:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dublin.ACT-Europe.FR) (212.157.227.154) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 2001 23:11:56 -0000 Received: by dublin.ACT-Europe.FR (Postfix, from userid 525) id 55F5D22A06B; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:13:47 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:22:00 -0000 From: Arnaud Charlet To: Joerg Faschingbauer Cc: charlet@ACT-Europe.FR, rth@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Use of -fPIC on Tru64 Message-ID: <20011218001347.B6541@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> References: <20011213182709.A13481@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <20011213093916.C6807@redhat.com> <20011213185001.B15020@dublin.int.act-europe.fr> <20011217204629C.jfasch@aon.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011217204629C.jfasch@aon.at>; from jfasch@aon.at on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:46:29PM +0100 X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00955.txt.bz2 > 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