Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:31:31 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxe@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: While we discuss libtool (-fpic vs. -fPIC) Message-ID: <20060228213131.GB86137@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1141159754.20664.89.camel@mteterin.us.murex.com> References: <1141151381.20664.19.camel@mteterin.us.murex.com> <20060228192453.GA84695@xor.obsecurity.org> <1141155894.20664.59.camel@mteterin.us.murex.com> <20060228195014.GA85269@xor.obsecurity.org> <1141156556.20664.66.camel@mteterin.us.murex.com> <20060228201124.GA85491@xor.obsecurity.org> <1141158688.20664.82.camel@mteterin.us.murex.com> <20060228204406.GA86137@xor.obsecurity.org> <1141159754.20664.89.camel@mteterin.us.murex.com>
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--f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > ? ??, 2006-02-28 ? 15:44 -0500, Kris Kennaway ????: > > The thing is, on i386 it makes no difference, it's only on some > > archtechtures where it matters. And it has to do with both the size of > > the symbol table and the size of the code.=20 > > -- > >=20 > > Also, Peter Wemm confirmed for me that -fpic and -fPIC are identical > > on amd64. >=20 > Mmm, this may be right... bsd.lib.mk's taking special care to use -fpic > is what confused me. >=20 > We should still use -DPIC for consistency, but very few files compile > differently based on that define. In fact I'd say none will (except those that might break by having it defined unexpectedly), because any port that needs to define -DPIC that in order to conditionally compile PIC code must already be doing so, or it'd be broken out of the box. kris --f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEBMEzWry0BWjoQKURAsMhAKDHsVe2smMinvVUD3BkRwtXtNT8UQCcCMlM RDHfC4f+n79VIwnn203EJPA= =Hfie -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y--
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