On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:41:00AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Do other arches allow non-PIC .o's to be linked into a .so lib? > > Generally - yes. True, but it's not recommended. The reason being that non-PIC code in a shared lib will mean lib pages with relocations can't be shared between processes should the library be loaded at a different virtual addresses. -- Alan Modra