Re: Re: PL/Python build

> Appently GCC on an i86/Elf based Linux platform, compiles _all_ code as 
> relocatable. So you can get alway with all kinds of stuff. But at least on 
> HPUX, the vendor compiler does not create relocatable objects unless 
> specifically asked to do so. And as a rule no-one does unless they are 
> creating a shared library.

Yes, the performance hit for relocatable code is measurable.  Good
point.  Does anyone know of a good doc/web page that talks about PIC,
shared libs, etc that is somewhat OS-independent?

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