On Feb 08, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
-- ciao, Marco