On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jeff Law <law@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/24/2016 01:21 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> One of the GCC devs explained why its OK a few years ago, but I can't >> find the bug report with the explanation. I just use -fPIC all the >> time unless its i686 because the GOT pointer basically reserves EBX. >> On i686 it becomes a tradeoff because you lose a register, so you may >> not want -fPIC/-fPIE at all. > > Actually EBX is no longer reserved on i686 when generating PIC code. I > believe that code went into gcc-5. Oh nice, thanks for that. Jeff
