Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Michael Meissner) | Subject | Re: Prerelease of 2.1.0 | Date | 24 Sep 1996 19:57:02 -0400 |
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In article <199609241141.NAA03844@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> writes:
| But dosen't that free up an register for user usage. With ELF, we lost this | register (giving a lot of programming freedom), could we get it back now?
Only if you compile the code with -fpic/-fPIC. The last time I checked, the kernel was not compiled with -fpic. -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Support (East Coast) 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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