* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > Just a small question: does the system KNOW an object compiled with > -fPIC but which contains non-PIC code must be treated as a non-PIC > object? On x86, the dynamic linker can perform the necessary relocations when a DSO is loaded which contains position-dependent code. On other architectures, this is different, but I expect the PIC penality to be smaller (thanks to more registers or IP-relative addressing).