Re: PIE and static libraries

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi All,

2016-05-22 11:26 GMT+02:00 Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>:
> On 05/22/2016 10:50 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:41:56AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
...
>
>>> B. From a performance perspective, using non-PIC/PIE code is
>>>    faster, though not necessarily by much anymore.
>> It was worth mentioning only for i386 anyway.
>
> Well, there's not only amd64 and i386 - and some other platforms
> also show some differences here. But as I said: I would recommend
> to use PIE/PIC anyway.

I have opened a bug to encourage PIC for static libraries in Policy, too.:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837478

Cheers,
Balint