From: Gareth Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:06:09 -0700 In the mean time, a few questions: - Does __thread require -fPIC? From my initial reading of the PDF document on your website, I was under the impression that this was the case. Why does it matter? Jakub has shown how to get the same kind of non-PIC relocations you want in the GL libraries by using private versions of symbols.
Also, the PIC register argument is bogus too. I know for a fact that current GCC will fully allow allocation of the x86 PIC register if you make no references to PIC relocatable data. %99 of functions in an OpenGL implementation will get full use of the PIC register, _ESPECIALLY_ if you use the privatization symbol tricks Jakub mentioned. It should be rare to reference PIC symbols from within OpenGL if done properly, thus the PIC register and the relocation arguments are null and void. Franks a lot, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel