>I keep having problems with gcc defining -z text when building shared objects. >I understand that having non -pic objects linked into a shared library >prevents the text segment containing the non-pic object from being shared. >How will this affect performance. From the manual it would seem that only the >segment containing the non-pic code would suffer and if no other such >segments were in the shared library then setting -z textoff would have no >effect and the library would still be shareable?
The "text" segment will not be shared; that's really the only segment that is generally shared. Also, runtime fixes to the text segment are done; this slows down startup. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
