From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:58:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: set USE_PIC on Linux x86_64 for linking with Git.pm
Message-ID: <200606291158.27172.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060629130400.c280de67.vsu@altlinux.ru>

On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:04, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> And the effect of -fPIC on x86_64 is smaller than on i386, because
> x86_64 has 2x more registers than i386, therefore loss of one register
> is less noticeable.

According to the x86_64 ABI, x86_64 has no explicit GOT pointer.
Meaning: no additional register needed at all, as x86_64 has IP-relative
addressing. Thus, compiling with -fPIC on x86_64 probably has no
negative implications at all (?).

Josef