Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:33:28 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: amd64 and -fPIC Message-ID: <20060307203328.GA56429@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060307195849.70339.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060307192606.GA56153@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060307195849.70339.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:58:49PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > > and > > > very often desired in most platforms except on amd64 > >=20 > > and other modern > > architectures. > >=20 >=20 > An honest question: I would like to know what other modern architectures > require this, I heard (but I'm not sure) that it's a consequence of the > architecture running both 64 and 32 bit code so.. SPARC64 and ia64 need i= t too? Yes, they both need it. It's not due to running both 64 and 32 bit code though. Kris --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDe4XWry0BWjoQKURAu6XAKD93nFH3IY5JqOOFSG3+j05Gq8rNACfV7nl hkZsL4Y8+Q12glPmVz/5xcU= =5amF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--
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