Bug#100346: seconding this proposal
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:03:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> | The shared version must be compiled with -fPIC, and the static version must
> | not be. In other words, each *.c file will need to be compiled twice.
>
> IMHO, it makes sense to drop this C reference as well, if we are in
> the process of changing the section.
How much of a C reference is it? Code in shared libraries must be
position independent. How it is achieved is less important, but I
expect that it's going to involve a flag similar to -fPIC. And I
don't want to replace it with a general statement about position
independence, because that means more people will get it wrong.
> In addition, there are some architectures where all code is position
> independent, so -fPIC is a noop, and others, where -fPIC is less
> efficient then -fpic.
IIRC, policy specifies -fPIC specifically because -fpic does not work
right on all architectures. I think that trying to prescribe different
flags for different architectures will cause insanity. Remember, there's
only one source package.
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