-fPIC and x86_64

[Orion Poplawski]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> But in that case not just for x86_64, but for all architectures.
> If the library is small and is expected to be only linked into small shared
> libraries, -fpic can be used instead.
> What small means is architecture dependent, on i386/x86_64 -fpic/-fPIC are
> identical, on other arches it can mean e.g. 4K got entries limit or similar.
> 
> 	Jakub

But I don't know what shared libraries it will be link to, so shouldn't 
I use -fPIC to be safe?  Or are there other drawbacks?

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