Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 03:01:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PIC (was: shared libraries?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970830025252.9057A-100000@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970830113025.45435@lemis.com>
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> Probably the most important factor in PIC is the instruction set. > Many systems generate PIC by default, or with few constraints. The > i386 architecture doesn't, unfortunately, and to generate PIC you have > to do without a number of instructions or address modes. As a result, > the code is less efficient. ummmm, as far as i know the 386 and beyond greatly reduced the addressing restrictions placed on code, almost any register is avalable for addressing and since you can load the PC into a register i don't see the problem here. Alfred
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