On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Greg Horn <gregmainland@gmail.com> wrote:
This might also be needed in OSX, but I don't remember.

OS X *always* builds PIC; a holdover from PPC where, while it was possible to build non-PIC, pretty much everything expected PIC even for static linking (it's part of the official PPC ABI). You have to put in some effort to make non-PIC code.

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