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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection cost (was Re: Parenthesized syntax challenge)
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 06:13:50 GMT
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In article <19951029T012233Z@naggum.no>, Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> wrote:

> this is odd.  to build shared objects (libraries) under, e.g., SunOS 4,
> so-called "position-independent code" must be emitted by the assembler, and
> special considerations must be followed by the compiler.

Unless I haven't kept up with SunOS progress, I think that position independent
code (PIC) is their terminology for position independent _executable code_.
I was talking about relative pointers in _data_, which isn't currently done by
any C compiler that I've ever heard of.

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