Re: -fpic vs. -fPIC

Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu> writes:
> > The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it in
> > the first place;
>
> We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
> we should prefer -fpic if at all possible.
>
> The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere
> near large enough to require -fPIC. In the absence of any evidence that
> we really are near the threshold, I'd prefer to go for the
> better-performing alternative.

One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly
so we would hear about it? If so, we can take the risk.

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