On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:45:54AM -0700, Morgan Herrington wrote:
> 
> 1) Ignoring issues of performance or actually even sharing the
>    library pages, are there technical reasons that non-PIC code can
>    not be used to build a ".so" library?  [This is for 32-bit
>    SPARC, Solaris 9, Sun Studio 8 and Forte 6 Update 2]

> 2) Does the answer to this question change for 64-bit SPARC or for
>    either 32-bit or 64-bit x86?

It will not work on amd64;  the definition of shared libraries requires
PIC code.

- jonathan

-- 
Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development

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