Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Runtime - you lose one register. In fact it would perhaps be nice to > offer "optimizing" flags, as well (perhaps in the template, comented out or > alike), which don't put in debug symbols (no -g) and also > pass -fomit-frame-pointer (making one more register available, at least on > x86). I'm sure there is enough high level stuff you can optimize in vdr before you need to worry about registers or compiler flags. IMO thinking about whether -fPIC hurts the vdr executable is waste of time. The trend goes to position independent exectuables anyways btw. > [...] > So my patch shouldn't break anything *additional*. But your Makefile as such > is not very portable, as the gcc man states PIC is not everywhere available. > For more portability one needs to check whether -fPIC is supported on the > platform/arch and then activate where needed. Therefore eg. things like It compiles on all SUSE supported architectures. Whether it works, I don't know. It doesn't matter anyways, I seriously doubt anyone is going to plug a dvb card into a s390 to use vdr with it :-) cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/
