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Re: Well, that's interesting.
> No, in this case it's not mainly the result of changes in code
> position; the main problem is that the x86 processors are totally
> register challenged and using pic code (with gcc at least) steals a
> register for holding an offset (so you end up with something like 3
> somewhat general registers).
But you don't NEED to use pic code for shared objects on your test
system, Linux knows how to do both pic and non-pic libraries
(actually you are better off keeping it switched off because sometimes
it gets confused when mixing pic with non-pic, in principle though
mixing is OK).
- Tel