On 19/02/15 23:19, Jeff Epler wrote: > Here are two scenarios where building a static library (libfoo) with > -fPIC is desirable ... > I wonder whether these scenarios were considered when the Policy was > written.
Conversely, when that part of the policy was written, 32-bit x86 was the major architecture. My understanding is that i386 performance suffers significantly from PIC (since PIC uses up a CPU register, and i386 doesn't have many of those), whereas on architectures with more registers (notably including ARM, x86-64 (including x32) and PowerPC), it doesn't hurt anywhere near as much. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54e7232c.9030...@debian.org