Re: shared library depending on static library on Solaris

[Thorsten Glaser]

Ralf Wildenhues dixit:

>> Most arches do not
>> support having non-pic code in a shared lib, for others pic is the
>> default.  Afaik, on linux, i386 is the only arch that actually
>> supports non-pic code in a shared lib.
>
>Solaris on some arches, too, I believe.

>> Having non-pic code in a shared lib has as effect that the lib
>> actually isn't shared by several processes, so it's a waste of
>> memory.
>
>ACK.

It depends. I did not push myself to a reproducible test case,
but I have heard and experienced at least one that not using
-fpic/-fPIC and then making a shared library can cause misbe-
haviour, even crash the app, under BSD. Some arches are more,
some less forgiving (on ppc, PIC is default, but I'm on i386
and had the problem).

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