Re: [Simulavr-devel] Missing -fPIC when compiling code for .so files?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> Indeed, I cannot see a -fPIC anywhere anyhow during the compilation
> before.  How is it supposed to work at all then?  Is it just working
> accidentally on the i386 platform since omitting -fPIC is perhaps
> benign there?

One of the tweaks I had to make when
compiling the firt time was to add -fPIC.
My recollection is that not having -fPIC or one
of its relatives results in self-modifying code.
SELinux objected to this by not letting my program run very long.
I don't remember how complex the modifications
are or how it affects subsequent efficiency.

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