amd64 and -fPIC

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:58:49PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:

> > > and
> > > very often desired in most platforms except on amd64
> > 
> >                                                        and other modern
> > architectures.
> > 
> 
> An honest question: I would like to know what other modern architectures
> require this, I heard (but I'm not sure) that it's a consequence of the
> architecture running both 64 and 32 bit code so.. SPARC64 and ia64 need it too?

Yes, they both need it.  It's not due to running both 64 and 32 bit
code though.

Kris
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