Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Tue Aug 25 2009 - 15:24:47 EST


> Actually, x86 was one of the archs which fucked us. Richard Henderson and
> I *had* this, but ld -shared without -fPIC helpfully tells you "you're doing
> it wrong" on x86-64.

This complaint could easily be (have been) made optional.

> There were other issues, ISTR MIPS was a showstopper.

Richard told me it's all MIPS' fault, but I was being discreet.


Thanks,
Roland
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