On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:35:43PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
<snip>
> > But sometimes this is just not possible at all (-fPIC eats a whole
> > register and some assembly routines may use all of them), and there are
> > situations where not using -fPIC is a performance loss.
>
> If the assembly code is not position-independent, you already have a
> problem here. If it is, then gcc is expected to regenerate the PIC
> register after the assembly section.
Last time I checked, it didn't. This seems to be a bug in GCC, and I had
a number of problems building shared versions of my libparted package,
as it used a Linux syscall to llseek ... (for before the glibc2.1 64 bit
lseek()).
Timshel
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