amd64 and -fPIC

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:07:12PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> ha scritto: 
> 
> ...
> > > 
> > >     That doesn't solve the problem, which is: the static library is
> > >     almost useless, and users might actually want or need to use the
> > >     static library.
> > 
> > Why do you say it's useless?  The point of a static library is for
> > static linking, and this works fine on amd64 or any other
> > architecture.
> > 
> 
> The problem is mixing static and shared libraries: this is perfectly legal

Unjustified assertion.

> and
> very often desired in most platforms except on amd64

                                                       and other modern architectures.

Kris
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