Re: shared libraries policy

2003-02-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
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

Re: shared libraries policy

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Marco d'Itri wrote: > I think that policy needs two small corrections to reflect current > practices wrt shared libraries and PIC code: > > - what is PIC library needs to be correctly defined: compiling with > -fPIC is not enough to have PIC code, the object MUST NOT have a > TEXTREL section

shared libraries policy

2003-02-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
I think that policy needs two small corrections to reflect current practices wrt shared libraries and PIC code: - what is PIC library needs to be correctly defined: compiling with -fPIC is not enough to have PIC code, the object MUST NOT have a TEXTREL section either [any other symbols need to