Re: shared libraries policy

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

On Feb 08, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

 >>  - libraries can contain short sections of non-PIC code on architectures
 >>  which allow this [i386 is OK, any other?] if this allows a
 >>  significant speed increase.
 >
 >This should be expended to cover the case of assembly files/ __asm__
 >directives that are provided for some architectures and are not
 >PIC aware, on architectures which allow this. The rationale being that
 >-fPIC will not make suddently the asm code PIC aware. But maybe
 >it is the situation that was supposed to be covered by this section after all 
 >?
Yes.

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ciao,
Marco