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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:08:01 -0700
From:      Joseph Fenton <jlfenton@citlink.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFLAGS+= -fPIC per default?
Message-ID:  <40395271.3030907@citlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040223001252.GA79774@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>>That makes no sense.
>>    
>>
>
>Just not to you. You even use this in your argument by differentiating
>between intra- and inter-section addressing. The reason my words do not
>make sense to you is that you map it onto your own point of view as if
>we're approaching this from the same angle, but all you're seeing is
>the mismatch between my words and your PoV.
>
>I suggest you step away from depicting the final code when you
>implicitly do away with all the uncertainties that a compiler needs
>to work with, to which the -fPIC applies anyway and how it affects
>the behaviour of the compiler.
>
>  
>
Most of the compilers I've dealt with on other platforms had no trouble
dealing with intra versus inter-section addressing. Guess that's what's 
giving
me the trouble seeing it from your end. It's also the reason I prefer to 
work
in assembly language. If the compiler has a problem dealing with it, I sure
don't. With assembly, it does EXACTLY what I want it to.

I'll just accept what you say and chalk it up to limitations in the method
currently used for cpu-independent compilation. Thanks for helping try
to get me straight on this.



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