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
