From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 20:33:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3FFE16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:33:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D4043D4C for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:33:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D1C1A4E5A; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:33:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C1B55214D; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:33:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:33:28 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Message-ID: <20060307203328.GA56429@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060307192606.GA56153@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060307195849.70339.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060307195849.70339.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: amd64 and -fPIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:33:32 -0000 --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--