Re: Patch not included in e2fsprogs 1.21.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> PIC code has a major performance impact since one entire register is devoted
> exclusively to holding the base address. The performance impact is exacerbated
> on lame arches such as x86 which have far too few registers. Only non-ELF
> archs (does Debian have any of those anymore?), or arches with broken linkers
> or broken shared lib loaders, are going to have problems when all shared libs
> are non PIC.
Tell that to the glibc build, and to Debian policy. Tell that to the
autobuilders that see the failures. Tell that to gcc, where libgcc.a is
compiled with -fPIC. Tell it to libtool that also uses -fPIC on all
linux elf platforms.
I think common practice negates your theory.
Ben
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