Jack,
the world is not just SGI anymore. I believe most compilers defaults
to non-shared/static.
Sun
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Carter [mailto:jcarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: Chan, Sun C; 'Kratzer, Willi'; 'pro64-support@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: auto-pic or non-auto-pic
>
>
> I thought the golden age of ia64 ELF ABI was to have only
> PIC? The non-shared options were there only to get things
> moving until dso's came on the scene.
>
> We have dso support now so why are we still allowing non-shared
> objects? If the first assumption I stated is correct then the
> longer we tolerate the non-shared objects to proliferate then
> the messier things will get in the future because archives
> tend to linger around forever.
>
> Jack
>
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