Re: [PATCH] Makefile: set USE_PIC on Linux x86_64 for linking with Git.pm

On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:04, Sergey Vlasov wrote:

And the effect of -fPIC on x86_64 is smaller than on i386, because
x86_64 has 2x more registers than i386, therefore loss of one register
is less noticeable.

According to the x86_64 ABI, x86_64 has no explicit GOT pointer.
Meaning: no additional register needed at all, as x86_64 has IP-relative
addressing. Thus, compiling with -fPIC on x86_64 probably has no
negative implications at all (?).

Josef