On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:04, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > And the effect of -fPIC on x86_64 is smaller than on i386, because > x86_64 has 2x more registers than i386, therefore loss of one register > is less noticeable. According to the x86_64 ABI, x86_64 has no explicit GOT pointer. Meaning: no additional register needed at all, as x86_64 has IP-relative addressing. Thus, compiling with -fPIC on x86_64 probably has no negative implications at all (?). Josef - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html