Re: non PIC library on alpha

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> writes:

> Woody allowed non PIC code in dynamic libraries on alpha, but this
> does not work anymore.
> 
> This is a problem if you have assembly code linked in your shared
> library that is not PIC aware, since you will need to rewrite it.

"Rewrite" seems a bit strong, most code shouldn't even be affected;
the only difference is in getting the address of global symbols.

Non-PIC code in libraries is not a good idea anyway, so I'd just fix
the assembly.

-- 
	Falk