On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:47:38 -0700
Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:

> > _Everything_ is built with PIC? That doesn't seem right.
> 
> Everything is built with PIC on most Linux platforms that aren't
> ridiculously register-contrained, since unless the userspace libraries
> are built PIC, they can't be linked into any other shared libraries.
> The cost of PIC on amd64 is a lot less than on i386.

I know that's how it is for the libraries, but it doesn't look like we
do that for, say, the fileserver driver sources. Like, viced.o,
afsfileprocs.o, etc.

-- 
Andrew Deason
[email protected]

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