Tom Lane wrote: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it in > > the first place; > > We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that > we should prefer -fpic if at all possible. > > The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere > near large enough to require -fPIC. In the absence of any evidence that > we really are near the threshold, I'd prefer to go for the > better-performing alternative.
One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly so we would hear about it? If so, we can take the risk. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
